> Jan Ploski wrote:
> Using primary/secondary disk didn't make any difference.
>
> However, I managed to fix the problems ...
>
> In short: it is possible to install and boot OpenSolaris on a secondary
> master (even if it also contains some Linux RAID partitions in front,
> which I thought might be adding to confusion). It *may* be a problem
> though to boot anything from a partition in high-numbered sectors
> ("high" being an overstatement: the last addressable sector was just
> 66059279 in my case, well below 40 GB).
Interesting...
IIRC, there was some kind of 32GB limit with x86 hw / bios / fdisk / ata disks
Maybe that limit is the root cause of the problem?
http://www.allensmith.net/Storage/HDDlimit/Limits.htm
http://www.allensmith.net/Storage/HDDlimit/63Sector.htm
The numbers do not match exactly, however
65535 cyl * 16 hd * 63 sec = 66059280 total sectors;
which matches the first unreadable sector on
your system....
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