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From: Tomi Vainio - Sun Finland - <Tomi.Vainio@Sun.COM>
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Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 19:37:45 +0300
To: "Steven Ames" <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>
Cc: "Gordon Tetlow" <gordont@gnf.org>, <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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Subject: Re: Preserving Solaris disklabel when installing FreeBSD?
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Steven Ames writes:
 > 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.
 > 
Problem is that FreeBSD destroy Solaris label which contains name and
size of the disk.  If you boot Solaris after use of FreeBSD disklabel
you see something like on this format and you have to give all disk
parameters manually.

Here is what FreeBSD says:
ad0: 8693MB <ST39140A> [17662/16/63] at ata2-master WDMA2

How to configure under Solaris:
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t0d0 <drive type unknown>
          /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES:
        0. other
Specify disk type (enter its number): 0
Enter number of data cylinders: 17660
Enter number of alternate cylinders[2]:
Enter number of physical cylinders[17662]:
Enter number of heads: 16
Enter number of data sectors/track: 63
Enter rpm of drive[3600]: 7200
Enter format time[default]:
Enter cylinder skew[default]:
Enter track skew[default]:
Enter tracks per zone[default]:
Enter alternate tracks[default]:
Enter alternate sectors[default]:
Enter cache control[default]:
Enter prefetch threshold[default]:
Enter minimum prefetch[default]:
Enter maximum prefetch[default]:
Enter disk type name (remember quotes): "ST39140A"
selecting c0t0d0
[disk formatted, no defect list found]


  Tomppa

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