Hello,
> My initial instinct is that there may be an issue in how you are
> laying out the disk. Did you do so manually?
Yes. I did layout the disk 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).
Well, I have been installing different kind of Unices for about 10 years, the
slicing metaphores is not a problem for me.
I did indeed put the layout myself. I created: /,
swap, /tmp, /var /export/home, /opt and /usr. I usually gace 2Gb, 6Gb, 24 Gb
etc... per slice. 1 Gb being for me 1024 Mb. However, the system did some
rounding for me, so 2Gb = 2048Mb became 2055Mb, for instance.
I can try again with a new slicing though. I am confident in the HD, the Linux
fisk tested the HD for me and did not reveal any faults.
Daniel
> -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
> > > >
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FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency Tel : +46 (0)8-55 50 32 12
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Department of Autonomous Systems Cellular : +46 (0)70-849 93 40
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