On 8/20/07, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you try the new installer in build 70? It just changed > the default layout.
Yes, to the point it breaks on any big disk when you use an x86 platform. I tried a 200GB ATA disk, and it told me the '/' slice extended beyond the first 1024 cylinders of my HBA. So I was forced to use the old installer, which funny enough happely created a 200GB '/' partition, created just to test if it'd work. Big (read 400GB) SATA disks seem to be a problem on its own, neither the old or the new installer allow me to install a '/' partition of any size. Even when I create a '/' partition of 5120MB (which is 660 cylinders acording to the old installer) it tells me the '/' partition extends beyond the first 1024 cylinders. These error messages are just stupid in my opinion. Cause lo and behold my 'format' output after installing SXCE70 on a 200GB ata disk with a 15GB Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 root wm 2323 - 4235 14.65GB (1913/0/0) 30732345 1 swap wu 3 - 1047 8.01GB (1045/0/0) 16787925 2 backup wm 0 - 30511 233.73GB (30512/0/0) 490175280 3 var wm 1048 - 2322 9.77GB (1275/0/0) 20482875 4 unassigned wm 4236 - 8060 29.30GB (3825/0/0) 61448625 5 unassigned wm 8061 - 30511 171.98GB (22451/0/0) 360675315 6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065 9 alternates wu 1 - 2 15.69MB (2/0/0) 32130 As you can see, the installer happely installs my root partition way beyond the 1024th cylinder.. Patrick / WickedWicky _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
