Hello,
I am trying to install Nevada b69 or b70 on my PC (Asus P5VD1-X (PT880Ultra
Chipset)), 320 Gb brand new IDE HD.
I end up with the following error messages:
ERROR: Could not create Fdisk partition table
ERROR: Could not label disks
ERROR: Could not update disks with new configuration
ERROR: System installation failed
The first times, I was using the whole disk (320Gb), I suspected by then a
possible issue with the 48bits LBA barrier (the 128Gb barrier), then I tried
with a single partition of 127Gb and I got.... The same error messages... I
tried with an other 320Gb HD, same issue.
As sugested on the opensolaris-help forum, I removed the RAID option in the
BIOS of my system. It seems that it went a little further... :
Configuring disk (c0d0)
- Creating Fdisk partition table
Fdisk partition table for disk c0d0
type: 130 active: 128 offset: 16065 size: 624944565
type: 0 active:0 offset: 0 size: 0
type: 0 active:0 offset: 0 size: 0
type: 0 active:0 offset: 0 size: 0
- Creating Solaris disk label
- Processing the alternate sector slice
Creating and checking UFS file system
- Creating / (c0d0s0)
Warning: 4378 sectors in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rdsk/c0d0s0: 31471334 sectors in 5123 cylinders of 48 tracks, 128 sectors
15366.9Mb in 321 cyl groups (16 c/g, 48.00MB/g, 5824 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at:
32, 98464, 196896, 295328, 393760, 492192, 590624, 689056, 787488, 885920,
Initializing cylinder groups:
write error on sector 689088: No such device or adress
ERROR: File system creation failed for / (c0d0s0)
ERROR: Could not check or create system critical file systems
etc...
Then, Brian Gupta suggested me to use the 'format' function in single user
mode to see what I would get. Here is what I got:
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS
0. c0d0 <default cyl 38910 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63 >
/pci at 0,0/pci-ide at f/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
2 backup wu 0 0 - 38909 298.07Gb (38910/0/0) 625089150
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84Mb (1/0/0) 16065
9 alternates wm 1 - 2 15.69Mb (2/0/0) 32130
This slice #9 alternates raised some eyesbrow on Brian's side.
Is it a bug that might explain why I can't install Solaris on my box? How can
I help to get this fixed?
How can I get Solaris on my box?
I am sitting at the moment next to the machine, I can try to provide more
information about its state, as long as I am explained what to do... ;)
Any help is of course warmly welcome
Daniel
