I was in the middle of a HardHat install, and fdisk was able to partition the disks. The problem is that I deleted all of the partitions on the original disk, including sda9 and sda11, which store the SGI sash bootloader and associated files. Without the bootloader, the system is inoperable. I did not realize that those partitions contained it at that time. On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:25:44AM +0200, Soeren Laursen wrote: > > You need (as I know) to use irix to prepare the disk. > No need for Irix. Linux fdisk can handle sgi disklkabels since quiet > some time now. > -- Guido > -- Ian Cooper ian@wpi.edu