Re: Add new Harddisk
Thorsten Kukuk <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.suse.sparc |
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| Organization | SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany |
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On Thu, Aug 08, Joerg Reuter wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I add a new harddisk at the second IDE-Port from my Blade 100. I read in the > blade-forum that I can use master/slave or cable select. I probe both but I > have the same problem. At the ok-promp i type probe-ide and the blade found > the new drive so I type boot -r. I start Suse-Linux and start yast2. Select > Partitionieren and the Programm find the new disk with the win32-.Partition. > I say the programm to delete it and add a 4 Gig-Partition. All right. I say > ok and the Programm say it can't do it. So I start fdisk at console, it find > the harddisk too, i erase the win32-partition and add the 4 Gig-Partition. > Then I start the blade and there is no new partition, only the old > win32-Partition. What is wrong? Sounds like you need to change the disk label from MSDos to SUN. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=10 This should work if your new harddisk is hdb (else use the correct device). After this, call fdisk. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [email protected] SuSE Linux AG Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]