I have taken a Samsung 500GB from my old ZFS raid. I have created a 100GB Windows XP partition and installed WinXP. The rest of the disk is unformatted. And then I wanted to install SXCE b104, so I started the SXCE install with ZFS. But it refused to install. Said that the partitions overlap and told me to edit and fix that. But it wasnt possible to edit. The cursor jumped directly to the top and nothing happened, each time I wanted to edit a disk.
Strange. I only have one partition with WinXP, and still it says "the partitions overlap"??? Is this a bug? So I restarted Solaris install with UFS and everything went fine. No error reports, I could allocate space and install SXCE. But upon reboot, to finish the install, it sets up SMF(?) with 213 services. That took ages, and when the disk loads data it sounds horrible. Slow, and sounds a lot. And when I do "format" and fdisk my partition, it says Specify disk (enter its number): 5 selecting c2d0 Controller working list found [disk formatted, defect list found] Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions. /dev/dsk/c2d0s0 is currently mounted on /. Please see umount(1M). /dev/dsk/c2d0s1 is currently used by swap. Please see swap(1M). What is this "defect list found"? Why does this happen? Is Solaris not capable of installing ZFS above 100GB? Should I make the install smaller? What is happening? When i boot into WindowsXP, the disk is silent and works fast. Clearly this is something with SXCE. So what is happening, is SXCE corrupting my disk? What should I do? Reinstall? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
