On 8/4/06, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > I have had an unfortunate experience with installing SXCR SNV44 > > (never had this problem with any version prior to SXCR SNV44). > > > > Sorry to hear this happened. It shouldn't, obviously. > > Had you attempted to change the partition layout on any of the previous > installations? Disk geometry is a very tricky area, and often different > OS's will disagree, so you can easily end up with corruption. Usually,
I have in the past, but it was only to add a new partition, I didn't delete any existing ones. > if I have to make changes, I use tools from one of the already-installed > OS's, on the likelihood that an OS is most likely to agree with itself > in this respect. What OS had you used to create the previous layout? I don't remember honestly. I probably used partitionmagic, or Ubuntu's setup partitioning tool. > If you'd done the previous layout with Ubuntu, you might try bringing up > Knoppix or one of the other Linux rescue CD's and see if you can restore > some sanity that way. Ubuntu can't mount any of the partitions although it can see them. Solaris format sees the partitions, and they all have the right size and partition type. Booting a gparted live CD, it doesn't recognise the partitions at all. I plan on trying a Knoppix Live CD one next before giving up. > I'm not sure we can do much else to help you at this point, but please > file a bug and include the fdisk output (and if you do have pre-upgrade > layout data available, that would be helpful, too). What do you mean by pre-upgrade layout data? I actually didn't do an upgrade in this particular case. The layout that I had before was what I described at the very top of my previous email. As far as specific geometry? No, sadly. I realise now that I posted this on the install-discuss list, I probably should have posted it on the help list or bugs list. Sorry about that. I have no idea why I picked install-discuss late last night when this happened. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
