On 04/12/10 12:56 AM, Reed Liu wrote:
Hi Folks,
My installation always failed due to bad geometry.
.......................
r...@opensolaris:~# uname -a
SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_135 i86pc i386 i86pc
r...@opensolaris:~# cat /tmp/install_log
<AI Apr 11 21:14:20> /tmp/ai_combined_manifest.xml is a valid manifest
<AI Apr 11 21:14:20> Auto reboot enabled
<AI Apr 11 21:14:20> Initiating Target Discovery...
<OM Apr 11 21:14:21> Ignoring c4t4d0 because of bad Geometry
<OM Apr 11 21:14:21> Ignoring c4t5d0 because of bad Geometry
<AI Apr 11 21:14:22> No disks found on the target system
<AI Apr 11 21:14:22> Automated installation failed in Target Discovery
module
<AI Apr 11 21:14:22> Please see previous messages for more details
...
I can read/write/format my disks without any errors. How can avoid the
problem of bad geometry?
This might be:
15294 installer says "no disks were found" but format / gparted sees them
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15294
Tracked in bugster as:
DM_NHEADS and DM_NSECTORS not available for disks w/o VTOC starting
build 135
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6937739
Workaround:
Before the installer is launched, manually create Solaris partition on
target disk by means of Solaris fdisk(1M). That triggers creating
default VTOC as well.
Cheers,
-Shawn
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