Re: How do I label a disk?
From: Andrew Gabriel (andrew_at_cucumber.demon.co.uk)
Date: 06/05/05
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Date: 05 Jun 2005 20:53:10 GMT
In article <HgJoe.14773$TR5.7214@news.edisontel.com>,
_moray <moray1.spam@yahoo.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently purchased a refurbished Ultra60, it works very well and it
> doesn't seem to have any problem so far.
> During my tests I installed on this machine netbsd, solaris and linux
> (gentoo), now I am going to definitely install solaris but I have this
> problem with both the disks installed.
>
> When I first installed solaris I had to install it on the second drive
> because the installer was complaining about a missing label on the first
> disk (yes, I tried to label it with format with no results :(), then I
Well, it really does help to say exactly what you typed in and
exactly what the results were. There are a number of things
which could be wrong ranging from you mistyping a command, through
to a dead disk. You haven't provided enough information to say
which it is.
> decided to install linux to have a look at it and also to format both disks.
>
> Now that I am trying to install solaris I can't get past this message:
>
> One or more disks are found, but one of the
> following problems exists:
>
> > Hardware failure
>
> > Unformatted disk.
>
> ok, I tried to format the first disk (it takes several minutes) but I
> still can't go any further. I also tried with dd to clean up things (at
> least it works with linux/freebsd:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/c0t0d0 bs=8k count=1
That command doesn't go anywhere near the disk, it
just creates an 8k file of nulls. Try:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 bs=8k count=1
> and then relabel it
> no results...
>
> could please anyone tell me how can I clean things up?
> I am also confused with sun labeling, I read on the gentoo handbook (and
> also somwhere else) that there must exist a partition (number three)
> that indicates the whole disk. I guess it is the same as the c label in
> bsd....but then why format shows me a partition 8 that covers all the
> disk sectors but seems to be 8mb in size?
I never saw any such message out of format.
> what am I doing wrong here?
Not providing enough info for starters.
-- Andrew Gabriel
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