Hi, I have been trying to help Daniel troubleshoot an install issue he has been having, and have run across some things that are beyond my experience. (I work mostly with Sparc and on the x86 system I have access to there is no alternates slice 9 setup.)
Thanks, Brian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Tourde <[email protected]> Date: Aug 23, 2007 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [osol-help] HD issue during the installation of SXCE b70 To: Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org>, opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org Hello, > All right let's try an experiment. > 1) Please use your install CD to boot into single user mode. > 2) run format and see if you see your disk 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 >3) If you see anything type it's number (0 most likely) (Let me know > if you see more than one) > 4) next enter 'pa' to enter the partition menu > 5) enter 'pr' to print the current partition table 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 > 6) if it complains enter 'la' to write the label to the disk > 7) type 'pr' again It did not complain... Nothing looks suspicious to me, maybe the boot and alternate parts which also are on the backup. I don't know... > Please email any errors and the outputs of the steps 2,5,6,7. My pleasure... Daniel -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
