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PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:36 am    Post subject: Semi-OT: Creation Of Solaris Disk Labels? Reply with quote

Anyone have any advice making disk labels under linux/solaris that will get recognised properly by solaris?

I wouldnt normally care, as I'm not the biggest slowaris fan, however I work for a consulting company and the expect me to stay up to date in my slowaris skillz during months and years of not geting any sun-related work.... doh .....

I've got an EIDE ultra5 (almost even enough for solaris lol), and have been trying for weeks now to get a disk label that solaris will read. I've used both linux fdisk and the solaris format utility (via the solaris9 install cd's emergency shell) all to no luck.

What happens is, as soon as it begins to copy files, it gives a whole ton of console messages reading "mangled entry; corrupt label" ...

anyone know if theres some magic option to enable solaris-friendliness or something? is there a secret with the "extra cyllenders" or one of the other funky questions it prompts you with during the disk label routine?

I feel so dumb ....
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure if it will work with solaris, but using the s command in fdisk can be used to create the solaris style disk label.

You could try to install this drive into an already installed Solaris system, then use the Solaris disk utilites from within a working system.

If you already have a working Solaris install it would be worth a try.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not really a possiblity, my only other sparc is an ultra1 (which is SCSI based).

Also, there is no "working system" running slowaris to speak of .. the ultra5 was going to become one (dualbooting gentoo and solaris from seperate drives)

:-/

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had to partition from solaris because solaris refused to use my linux created partitions.

So boot from a solaris disk, run format and set up your partitions, purposely leaving some blank for linux. Then change the linux ones from the gentoo cd.
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PostPosted: Sun May 02, 2004 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that was part of the problem, using the solaris format utility fails yielding the error mentioned in the first post. disk labels i make in linux wont work in solaris (yielding simmilar errors or just being undetected)
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