<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No big deal. Eat the disk label by using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd?? > count=1 bs=1M in the installer's spare command console; then recreate > it with the parted partition editor.
Parted and fdisk both produce bad labels as far as Solaris is concerned. However, I think I just potted the problem. The same sort of disk in another machine running Solaris reports: Volume name = < > ascii name = <SUN36G cyl 24620 alt 2 hd 27 sec 107> pcyl = 24622 ncyl = 24620 acyl = 2 nhead = 27 nsect = 107 whereas the fdisk-created one has Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 27 heads, 107 sectors, 10025 rpm 24622 cylinders, 2 alternate cylinders, 24624 physical cylinders i.e. it seems to be confusing cylinders and physical cylinders. I'm not sure whether parted chose these or whether I was confused in copying them from the Solaris version when I re-labelled. However, the disk was originally running Solaris and got trashed by the installer when I added the linux partitions. The fdisk `c' and `y' commands don't actually work to change these. `p' shows new values, but `w' doesn't actually save them. Can anyone say if any of this is a bug that should be reported? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]