My initial instinct is that there may be an issue in how you are laying out the disk. Did you do so manually?
(Solaris, and certain other Unixes use a slice metaphor for describing sections of a disk. It is important to understand this when manually laying out the disk). -Brian P.S. - Did you run the hardware compatibility tester? On 8/22/07, Daniel Tourde <ted at foi.se> wrote: > Hello Brian, > > Thank your for your answer. > To be honest, I am not so familiar with OpenSolaris. I usually have no major > issue with Gentoo Linux or FreeBSD but Solaris is kinda new for me and as you > can see, at the moment I am fairly stuck with this. I don't know how to get > this work... > I reformated the whole HD yesterday with Linux fdisk and I had no issue > with 'sector 689088'. Anyway even if the sector on the HD was damaged (which > is possible), the format procedure should take care of that and quarantine > the sector. > > Daniel > > > Are you familiar with installing OpenSolaris? -Brian > > > > On 8/21/07, Daniel Tourde <ted at foi.se> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am trying to install Nevada b69 or b70 on my PC (Asus P5VD1-X > > > (PT880Ultra Chipset)), 320 Gb brand new IDE HD. The RAID option in the > > > BIOS of my system is disabled. > > > > > > The installation stops after a minute with the following error messages: > > > > > > 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... > > > > > > What is wrong? How can this be solved? > > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > -- > > > ************************************************************************* > > >* Daniel TOURDE E-mail : > > > daniel.tourde at foi.se FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency > > > Tel > > > : +46 (0)8-55 50 32 12 Defence & Security, Systems and Technology > > > Fax : +46 (0)8-55 50 36 51 Department of Autonomous Systems > > > Cellular : +46 (0)70-849 93 40 SE-164 90 Stockholm, Sweden > > > ************************************************************************* > > >* _______________________________________________ > > > opensolaris-help mailing list > > > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org > > > > -- > ************************************************************************** > Daniel TOURDE E-mail : daniel.tourde at foi.se > FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency Tel : +46 (0)8-55 50 32 12 > Defence & Security, Systems and Technology Fax : +46 (0)8-55 50 36 51 > Department of Autonomous Systems Cellular : +46 (0)70-849 93 40 > SE-164 90 Stockholm, Sweden > ************************************************************************** > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
