successfully installed 2009 06 on hp pavillion dv9000. i had linux before.
system has 2 harddrives.
has solaris installed on one and wanted to mirror the other one.
1. used format to delete the ext3 partition and create solaris2, on the second
drive.
2. trying to copy volume table of contents to drive 2 before attaching to the
pool.
pfexec prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c8t2d0s2
getting this.
fmthard: Cannot open device /dev/rdsk/c8t2d0s2 - Permission denied
the disk seems ok as i can install linux suse11 and windows...it seems like
format thinks it is still busy with something???
tried to format the second disk using format.
Retry format without mode selects and Grown Defects list? y
Formatting...
Illegal request during format: block 0 (0x0) (0/0/0)
ASC: 0x20 ASCQ: 0x0
Illegal request during format: block 0 (0x0) (0/0/0)
ASC: 0x20 ASCQ: 0x0
failed
here is the output from disk selection
Total disk size is 14593 cylinders
Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Solaris2 1 14592 14592 100
Please help!
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