Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:44:25 +0200 (CEST) From: "Didrik Madheden" <didrik@kth.se> To: "Didrik Madheden" <didrik@kth.se> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Sparc64 partitions compatible with PC? (Problem solved, sort of) Message-ID: <61163.91.95.8.243.1216489465.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> In-Reply-To: <49814.91.95.8.243.1216416842.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> References: <57797.91.95.8.243.1216313772.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> <oqbq0w8ipv.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> <64373.91.95.8.243.1216323299.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se> <49814.91.95.8.243.1216416842.squirrel@webmail.sys.kth.se>
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So, I might've reached a solution of sorts. I've swore and torn my hair while trying to get FBSD on the PC to detect my file system. So now I've reinstalled FBSD on the Sparc, where I entered the values from my text file, and instead of saying "Invalid parameter" or whatever it said before, it now started fsck_ffs which finished without errors, and my files seem to be intact, so everything is now fine and dandy. I think I've given up the idea of trying to reuse the same fs, so I'm now going to back up the data over FTP and create a whole new fs on the PC. Among the many things I've done the last 24 hours I've tried a demo version of some recovery software which asked me whether the partition I was looking for was from an x86 or Sparc installation, suggesting there might be differences, most probably endianness. So I guess that's the end of this problem. Oh, and thanks Miles for all the info, especially the response to my mini rant about dd. And all other people as well of course. Here's what I've learned today: (OpenBoot commands) nvalias cdrom /pci@1f,0/ide@cdrom@X,0:f nvramrc (Don't know if this one is actually needed) boot cdrom Where X=0 for pri master up to 3 for sec slave. I always had this idea that cdrom always pointed to an auto-detected cdrom drive. Even so I think the drive that came with my box is a bit shaky. /Didrik Madheden
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