From owner-freebsd-sparc Fri Apr 19 13:10:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from virtual-voodoo.com (bdsl.66.12.217.106.gte.net [66.12.217.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED66737B41D; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inlafrec (bdsl.66.12.217.51.gte.net [66.12.217.51]) (authenticated bits=0) by virtual-voodoo.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3JKAEOo023825; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:10:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from steve@virtual-voodoo.com) Message-ID: <020b01c1e7de$39141d20$33d90c42@officescape.net> From: "Steven Ames" To: "Gordon Tetlow" , "Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland -" Cc: , References: Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:10:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Slightly off topic... but after installing freebsd (on the whole disk including updating the bootblocks), my Solaris 8 CD won't install anymore. Its pretty funny. For kicks I tried Solaris 6 and it would install. Solaris 7 also did. But 8 always gets an 'unable to format' error. Not that I care overmuch as I'm eagerly waiting for FBSD/sparc64 to be able to 'make world' locally and run X. The above was on an ultra5 and an IDE disk using the 20020303 and 20020408 ISO. -Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Tetlow" To: "Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland -" Cc: ; Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD? > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - wrote: > > > David O'Brien writes: > > > > > > FreeBSD with a GEOM kernel can understand a Solaris FFS. A non-GEOM > > > kernel can also, but fsck is deadly. At this point, though all you care > > > about is that FreeBSD can understand a Solaris disk label. You can now > > > boot the ISO and install FreeBSD onto 'a'. > > > > > There has to be a problem with DP1 kernel (missing options?) because > > FreeBSD can't read disklabel or mount 'a' ? > > > > # disklabel -r ad0 > > disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) > > # mount /dev/ad0a /mnt > > mount: /dev/ad0a on /mnt: incorrect super block > > I think what David is trying to say is, you need to partition your disk > using the Solaris disktools. Once you have it setup they way you want it > (ie install Solaris with partitions set aside for FreeBSD), you boot a > FreeBSD/sparc64 cd and do the install into the already set aside partition > (from the Solaris install). You don't use the FreeBSD disklabel tool at > all, as it doesn't read Solaris disklabels. While the kernel is smart > enough to know about it, that logic hasn't made it into the disklabel > userland tool. > > -gordon > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message