Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:55:17 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Steve Rikli <sr@genyosha.net>, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing Solaris back onto ultra after FreeBSD Message-ID: <p06240800c5b26210924f@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20090206014639.GA96198@dragon.genyosha.net> References: <01ca01c987f5$37f23fd0$a7d6bf70$@com> <498B8DB5.80305@alaska.net> <01cf01c987f7$b87691e0$2963b5a0$@com> <20090206014639.GA96198@dragon.genyosha.net>
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At 5:46 PM -0800 2/5/09, Steve Rikli wrote: >On Thu, Feb 05, 2009, Ansar Mohammed wrote: > > Format is core-dumping :) > >I think I've seen that before, though it may have been something other >than a FreeBSD disk label. > >In any case Royce's explanation is probably still correct; what I did >in that situation (i.e. unable to use 'format') was put the disk in >another Ultra, 'dd' over the first few megabytes of the disk just to >wipe out the existing label, and then try 'format' again after putting >it back in the original machine w/Solaris boot CD etc. I assume that he could also boot up into a FreeBSD install CD, and use FreeBSD to 'dd' over the disk. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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