Hello again,
As sugested here, I removed the RAID option in the BIOS of my system. It seems
that it went a little further but still, It does not go very far...
I got more info though:
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...
Daniel
> 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 checked the BIOS function, I did not find any 48 bits LBA mode or
> something. The mobo is from last year with the latest BIOS update, so I
> suppose the support is included.
> I don't know if Solaris 11 supports this 48 bits LBA mode (I don't even
> know if this is the reason to the problem).
>
> 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
