Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:29:37
Message-Id: 45286271.20409@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris by Andrew Gaffney
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4 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
5 > gentuxx wrote:
6 >> I'm running into an issue where the installer doesn't recognize the
7 >> drive layout of the "big" drive I have in there now. Is there a way
8 >> with the gentoo-sparc InstallCD that I can reset the CHS settings in the
9 >> partition map to something the (uber-picky) Solaris install script would
10 >> recognize?
11 >
12 > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
13 >
14
15 I've tried this, except I think I used "bs=1024". Still no joy.
16
17 > Running that from the Gentoo CD will clear off the disklabel created by
18 > fdisk. Then the Solaris installer can choose whatever settings it wants
19 > for the drive.
20 >
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24 gentux
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Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris Kumba <kumba@g.o>