On 2014-07-25 15:06, Michael Butash wrote:
> Don't make your bootable an extended (I don't think this will work if
> I remember right)
The "bootable" flag in the partition table is only checked and used by
the DOS/Windows boot sectors. GRUB, LILO, and GRUB2 ignore it, and IIRC
only LILO needs to have the kernel/initrd within the BIOS-addressable
area of the disk (used to be the first 8G or first 32G, is larger now.)
> On 07/25/2014 02:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> it seems a more recent version of cfdisk will create filesystems
This seems like a horrible idea to me.
>> root@debian:~# mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sda6
>> Could not stat /dev/sda6 --- No such file or directory
>> root@debian:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
>> /dev/sda1 2048 7813119 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
>> /dev/sda2 7815166 488281249 240233042 5 Extended
>> /dev/sda5 * 7815168 105469951 48827392 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda6 437499848 476569864 19535008+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda7 476569928 488281249 5855661 82 Linux swap / Solaris
This seems odd--why is there a bunch of empty space between sda5 and
sda6? You don't need 2 swap partitions; distros can share swap
partitions.
>> Please, what did I do wrong or else what is the problem?
Is udev running? What does "ls -l /dev/sd*" tell you? If udev or
systemd isn't running, then the device node /dev/sda6 may not have been
created. "mknod /dev/sda6 b 8 6" will create it manually. But if it's
not showing up, then you should find out why udev or systemd isn't
running. Having device nodes automatically added when new devices are
plugged in works and is useful.
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