AlphaCore 1.0 final release !

[Steven N. Hirsch]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Balint Cristian wrote:

> > I'm running into problems trying to install Alpha Core 1.0.  The box is a
> > UP2000+ with an Adaptec 39160 controller.  There are (2) drives attached,
> > one on each channel.  The dka device is partitioned and formatted for
> > Tru64 Unix.  Dkb has (3) other Linux distributions installed and has been
> > partitioned with a BSD disklabel scheme.
> > 
> > I'm trying to install onto an unused partition on dkb.  The installer
> > trips over dka, telling me that the partition table is unreadable and
> > asking if I want to reinitialize it.  I answer "no".  It then tells me
> > that dkb is unreadable as well! When I tell it not to initialize that
> > disk, it terminates with an error (thinking that no disks are available).
> > 
> > The question is: why can't the installer read the partition information
> > on
> > either drive?  Granted, it won't know about AdvFS on dka, but it still
> > should have read the disklabel.  And, since the Linux distros on dkb are
> > functional there's no reason it should have problems of any sort.
> 
> Hmm interesting. I notice the issue, keep that in mind.
> 
> > 
> > Any advice as to how I proceed with installation and avoid repartitioning
> > the second disk?
> 
> As quick hack, try unplug physicaly dka down from SCSI bus !

Just tried that.  It still claims it cannot "read" the disk.  Sergey 
recommended that I boot in rescue mode and try to mount it manually.  This 
works fine, as I expected.

Why is the installer not happy with the disk?  

Steve