Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:13:07
Message-Id: 45300F4E.10901@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris by Mike Owen
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4 Mike Owen wrote:
5 > On 10/7/06, gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com> wrote:
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9 >> Hi All,
10 >>
11 >> I have an Ultra5 that I was running gentoo on (quite happily I might
12 >> add). But a recent project requires that I switch it to Solaris
13 >> (preferably 10, but 9 would work too).
14 >>
15 >> I'm running into an issue where the installer doesn't recognize the
16 >> drive layout of the "big" drive I have in there now. Is there a way
17 >> with the gentoo-sparc InstallCD that I can reset the CHS settings in the
18 >> partition map to something the (uber-picky) Solaris install script would
19 >> recognize?
20 >>
21 >
22 > What size is the drive? If it's over about 130GB, you could be running
23 > into a problem with the archaic IDE controller on that Ultra 5.
24 >
25 >
26 > Mike
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28 It's 120GB. Solaris "sees" 114GB.
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Re: [gentoo-sparc] OT: From gentoo to Solaris Paul Heinlein <heinlein@××××××.com>