Richard Skelton wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install Solaris nv35 to a spare slice on my laptop. When I try > to reserve my existing root and home partition the installer barfs:- > "The slice containing this file system does not start or end on a cylinder > boundary. > > Mis-aligned slices cannot be preserved." > > I currently have nv30 installed on slice 0 and wanted to install nv35 to > slice 3 preserving silce 0,1 and 7 > > I created this disk layout when I installed nv30 > Is the nv30 format program broken? > Or is the nv35 installer broken? > Why did it let me create slices on non cylinder boundarys if that is needed > in future installs? > How can I install to slice 3 now? >
Richard, I looked at this a bit and I don't see that we've made any changes in the install code which would account for this problem. Can you get prtvtoc output from both snv_30 as well as when it's booted into the snv_35 installer? Perhaps that would give me something to go on. Dave > * > * Dimensions: > * 512 bytes/sector > * 63 sectors/track > * 255 tracks/cylinder > * 16065 sectors/cylinder > * 4870 cylinders > * 4868 accessible cylinders > * > * Flags: > * 1: unmountable > * 10: read-only > * > * First Sector Last > * Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount > Directory > 0 2 00 6048 20972448 20978495 / > 1 3 01 20978496 1050336 22028831 > 2 5 00 0 78236928 78236927 > 3 0 00 22028832 20972448 43001279 > 7 8 00 43001280 35235648 78236927 /export/home > 8 1 01 0 2016 2015 > 9 9 01 2016 4032 6047 > > Cheers > Richard. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
