[Aurora-sparc-user] Sun Netra T1 (105) with Disk Pack .. possible uses??

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:04 -0700, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Plasma wrote:
> 
> > Ok .. have swapped the CD Rom for a DVD writer. When I run the text based
> > setup from the Aurora 2.0 DVD .. a few screens in I get a message saying ...
> >
> > "Warning - the disk CHS geometry (8637,64,32) does not match the geometry
> > stored on the disk label (4924.27.133)"
> >
> > The options were Ignore an Cancel so I've taken Ignore but wondered what the
> > implications of this might be?
> 
> I also see this message, it didn't seem to cause a problem for me though

OK, I can answer the two items in this thread:

1. The disk CHS geometry was being mis-detected by old parted (including
that in 2.0). The disk label is right, parted is wrong. This was fixed
in newer parted releases. In the next beta (2.98), you will want to dd
out the disk to avoid this error:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$DRIVE bs=1M count=1

(where $DRIVE is hda or sda)

You just boot into rescue mode, then switch to the shell and dd out the
disk. Should only have to do it once, then you can do the install
cleanly.

Some of the systems in early testing for the beta needed to do this
before the install would succeed, some of them would be able to safely
ignore it.

2. LVM in the Aurora 2.0 releases wasn't working right 99% of the time.
We also fixed this in the next beta. So far, no LVM failures in testing.

If I didn't do anything brain-dead in the last spin, we'll release 2.98
for public testing this week.

~spot