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Bug #1560

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Unable to modify partition table on ThinkPad T61p during install

Added by rehsack over 14 years ago. Updated about 9 years ago.

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Description

Hi all,

I tried to install a DragonFly BSD for testing purposes on a changeable hard
disk on my Laptop (ThinkPad T61p). I didn't got the partition table of
/dev/ad0 modified - neither after dd (as described in /README) nor after
creating another partition table (I tried creating a file system from using
Windows on primary hard disk of this Laptop and Debian - both worked and
both find it after reboot - DragonFly never find anything on that disk).

I attach a full (verbose) dmesg, ls -l of /dev, pciconf -lv output and
finally (always the same) output from fdisk ad0. Sure I would be glad if I
could get DragonFly installed - but much more I hope this helps you to find
a bug.

Best regards,
Jens


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dmesg.log (59.1 KB) dmesg.log rehsack, 10/05/2009 08:45 PM
fdisk.log (829 Bytes) fdisk.log rehsack, 10/05/2009 08:45 PM
ls_dev.log (6.24 KB) ls_dev.log rehsack, 10/05/2009 08:45 PM
pciconf.log (6.72 KB) pciconf.log rehsack, 10/05/2009 08:45 PM
Actions #1

Updated by thomas.nikolajsen over 14 years ago

It seems like you don't have a recognized MBR on 'ad0'.
Installing an initial MBR can be done by:
fdisk -BI ad0

Updating the MBR can be done by:
fdisk -u ad0

If you would like to have multiple OSs installed,
a boot manager can be installed in MBR by:
disklabel -B ad0

How did you try to modify MBR; using installer or manually?
If manually; which commands did you use?
(e.g.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=32
fdisk -BI ad0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s1 bs=512 count=32
disklabel -w -B ad0s1 auto
disklabel -e ad0s1
as example in disklabel man page)

Are you sure the HD you would like to modify is 'ad0'?
'da0' is first AHCI / SCSI attached disk,
'da8' is first external disk (e.g. USB attached),
'ad0' is first ATA / SATA, non-AHCI attached disk.

Your logs show several disks, ad0, ad8 & da0, in system:
egrep '(ad|da)[[:digit:]]' DMESG
..
ad0: 238475MB <SAMSUNG HM251JJ 2AA00 00> at ata0-master UDMA33
ad0: 488397168 sectors [484521C/16H/63S] 16 sectors/interrupt 1 depth queue
ad0: invalid primary partition table: no magic
da0 at ahci0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <SATA HITACHI HTS72201 DCDZ> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device
da0: Serial Number 071103DP1D10DGG5YHJP
da0: 150.000MB/s transfers
da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C)
da0: type 0x27, start 2048, end = 13860863, size 13858816 : OK
da0: type 0x7, start 13865040, end = 312575759, size 298710720 : OK
da8 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da8: <3System USB FlashDisk 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da8: 1.000MB/s transfers
da8: 15360MB (31457280 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1958C)
da8: type 0xc, start 63, end = 31455647, size 31455585 : OK
(da8:umass-sim1:1:0:0): lost device
(da8:umass-sim1:1:0:0): removing device entry
da8 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da8: <3System USB FlashDisk 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da8: 40.000MB/s transfers
da8: 15360MB (31457280 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 1958C)
da8: type 0xc, start 63, end = 31455647, size 31455585 : OK

Actions #2

Updated by thomas.nikolajsen over 14 years ago

A few typos in prev. message:
bootmanager .. 'disklabel -B ad0' -> 'boot0cfg -B ad0'

Your .. disks .. 'ad0, ad8 & da0' - 'ad0, da0 & da8'

Actions #3

Updated by corecode over 14 years ago

Thomas Nikolajsen (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:

If you would like to have multiple OSs installed,
a boot manager can be installed in MBR by:
disklabel -B ad0

I think you mean
boot0cfg -B /dev/ad0

cheers
simon

Actions #4

Updated by rehsack over 14 years ago

Thomas Nikolajsen (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:

Thomas Nikolajsen <> added the comment:

It seems like you don't have a recognized MBR on 'ad0'.

Believe me: I have - dozen times. Rebooting between assuming the kernel
caches the current (empty) MBR, powering off the machine - and as I told,
using as well Linux and Windows XP to create a partition including a
filesystem on the disk: DragonFly see always the attached MBR - regardless
what I've done before.

Installing an initial MBR can be done by:
fdisk -BI ad0

Tried - because it's described in /README

Updating the MBR can be done by:
fdisk -u ad0

As in FreeBSD since ages (I'm FreeBSD user since 2000 or so ...)

If you would like to have multiple OSs installed,
a boot manager can be installed in MBR by:
disklabel -B ad0

How did you try to modify MBR; using installer or manually?

Both.

If manually; which commands did you use?
(e.g.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=32

I used "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=32k count=16 (later I tried count=640)

fdisk -BI ad0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s1 bs=512 count=32
disklabel -w -B ad0s1 auto
disklabel -e ad0s1
as example in disklabel man page)

Are you sure the HD you would like to modify is 'ad0'?
'da0' is first AHCI / SCSI attached disk,

da0 is the "internal" windows disk (seen by both NTFS partitions on it).

'da8' is first external disk (e.g. USB attached),

USB stick I used to copy the logs.

'ad0' is first ATA / SATA, non-AHCI attached disk.

The empty disk I want to use to put DragonFly BSD on it.

Your logs show several disks, ad0, ad8 & da0, in system:

I couldn't see anything in the dmesg log, but I thought a developer might do ...

Jens

Actions #5

Updated by thomas.nikolajsen over 14 years ago

Could you try booting with AHCI driver disabled (menu item at boot),
and test if this makes you able to modify MBR of your
<SAMSUNG HM251JJ 2AA00 00> disk (currently ad0).

If this doesn't succeed; could you try DragonFly/i386
(I see you are using DragonFly/amd64),
to see if this makes any diffference being able to modify MBR.

If still no success, try disabling AHCI using DragonFly/i386.

Actions #6

Updated by tuxillo about 9 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Category set to Other
  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • Assignee deleted (0)
  • Target version set to Unverifiable

Moving to unverifiable.
Feel free to update it if you can test it again.

Cheers,
Antonio Huete

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