[SunRescue] RedHat 6.2 install on a Sparc10/2xSM41

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaun Landis [mailto:slandis at plague.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 11:51 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] RedHat 6.2 install on a Sparc10/2xSM41
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  I seem to have encountered some unexpected trouble 
> installing RH6.2 on my
> sparc. I'm installing over a serial line, and everything goes fine :
> 
>  boot from floppy, select install method, enter network 
> config, ftp site for
> packages, partition disk
> 
> After partitioning, I do a couple other routine things, setup 
> the root and a
> user account, and then the install script turns up an error 
> trying to mount
> sda1 - "Error mounting sda1: Invalid argument", and 
> everything dies, install
> shuts down. Anyone else have any problems like this, or ideas 
> on what this
> might be? I've ruled out the drive being bad, I've tested it 
> in several
> machines. Any help would be appreciated.

Can you post the output of fdisk -l /dev_equivalent/sda?  Maybe it doesn't
have a proper "whole" disk partition or something.
	Greg