Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:10:14 -0500 From: "Steven Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> To: "Gordon Tetlow" <gordont@gnf.org>, "Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland -" <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM> Cc: <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <020b01c1e7de$39141d20$33d90c42@officescape.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204191255180.27481-100000@smtp.gnf.org>
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Slightly off topic... but after installing freebsd (on the whole disk including updating the bootblocks), my Solaris 8 CD won't install anymore. Its pretty funny. For kicks I tried Solaris 6 and it would install. Solaris 7 also did. But 8 always gets an 'unable to format' error. Not that I care overmuch as I'm eagerly waiting for FBSD/sparc64 to be able to 'make world' locally and run X. The above was on an ultra5 and an IDE disk using the 20020303 and 20020408 ISO. -Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Tetlow" <gordont@gnf.org> To: "Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland -" <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM> Cc: <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - wrote: > > > David O'Brien writes: > > > > > > FreeBSD with a GEOM kernel can understand a Solaris FFS. A non-GEOM > > > kernel can also, but fsck is deadly. At this point, though all you care > > > about is that FreeBSD can understand a Solaris disk label. You can now > > > boot the ISO and install FreeBSD onto 'a'. > > > > > There has to be a problem with DP1 kernel (missing options?) because > > FreeBSD can't read disklabel or mount 'a' ? > > > > # disklabel -r ad0 > > disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) > > # mount /dev/ad0a /mnt > > mount: /dev/ad0a on /mnt: incorrect super block > > I think what David is trying to say is, you need to partition your disk > using the Solaris disktools. Once you have it setup they way you want it > (ie install Solaris with partitions set aside for FreeBSD), you boot a > FreeBSD/sparc64 cd and do the install into the already set aside partition > (from the Solaris install). You don't use the FreeBSD disklabel tool at > all, as it doesn't read Solaris disklabels. While the kernel is smart > enough to know about it, that logic hasn't made it into the disklabel > userland tool. > > -gordon > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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