Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:50:22 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM> Cc: Steven Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020420145022.D8692@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <15553.39257.634169.39351@gargle.gargle.HOWL>; from Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM on Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:37:45PM %2B0300 References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204191255180.27481-100000@smtp.gnf.org> <020b01c1e7de$39141d20$33d90c42@officescape.net> <15553.39257.634169.39351@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
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Apparently, On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:37:45PM +0300, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - said words to the effect of; > Steven Ames writes: > > 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. > > > Problem is that FreeBSD destroy Solaris label which contains name and > size of the disk. If you boot Solaris after use of FreeBSD disklabel > you see something like on this format and you have to give all disk > parameters manually. Try the older cd image I guess; I don't use sun disklabels so I haven't tested it at all, I know other people have used them. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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