Hi, I booted Gentoo on my SGI Octane workstation using the netboot image http://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/netboot/testing/ip30-r10k+-20060112.img.bz2 (there is no other usable kernel available). I created partitions in fdisk by specifying cylinders (and used the default (last cylinder) for the last partition). The last created partition is too large, so that the kernel complained during the mkfs step (17783954>17781520): / # fdisk /dev/sdb Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sdb1 boot 8 16 144585 83 Linux native 2: /dev/sdb2 swap 17 120 1670760 82 Linux swap 3: /dev/sdb3 121 600 7711200 83 Linux native 4: /dev/sdb4 601 1106 8128890 83 Linux native 9: /dev/sdb5 0 7 128520 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sdb6 0 1106 17781520 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512 Command (m for help): u Changing display/entry units to sectors Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb (SGI disk label): 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sdb1 boot 128520 273104 144585 83 Linux native 2: /dev/sdb2 swap 273105 1943864 1670760 82 Linux swap 3: /dev/sdb3 1943865 9655064 7711200 83 Linux native 4: /dev/sdb4 9655065 17783954 8128890 83 Linux native 9: /dev/sdb5 0 128519 128520 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sdb6 0 17781519 17781520 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512
Sorry, I forgot the version info: /mnt/gentoo # fdisk -V fdisk v2.12r (Just in case you don't know the SGI Octane, it's the IP30 system) Jens
reassigning to mips directly. I do think this was fixed in newer versions of fdisk already.
Octane support is dead. So, I don't know what to do here, especially since Robin thinks this is probably fixed and the bug is four years old with no input from mips@. Jens, if this is still a problem, please don't hesitate to tell us. In the meantime I'll close this bug as CANTFIX or something.