Solaris won't find IDE disk (sparc)
Hi
I'm trying to reinstall solaris on a UltraII 440Mhz (ide) machine.
On the disk is now debian Linux, but because I'd like to get some experience with Solaris, i'll give that a shot. Debian boots fine btw.
After being able to select the installation medium (cd\DVD) there's a message "initializing system", but at about 50% of that one it just says : no hard disk detected, please power all disks (ore something like that).
The model is a 7200rpm seagate which has been originally in the machine afaik (it's a deprecateed machine from my employer).
What am I doing wrong?
I just booted the installer using:
stop-a
boot cdrom
and click next etc.
# 1
You could try and run Solaris "format" and see how it reacts on your disk. To do so you'ld have to boot up into single user from the cd using:
boot cdrom -s
Then, once you get the hash-prompt, just run "format".
Its possible that the installation media can't recognize the disk because it lacks a Solaris label. In that case you'll have to add a Solaris label to it (something you can do with format), however i'm unsure what effect that will have on your Linux instance.
7/M.
# 2
well it's okay to get rid of the linux-instance (hey it's debian .... nobody will mind (I'm a gentoo user)).
when I type format, i get :
Current disk type is nog set.
i can also see that there is a disk called : c0t0d0, but when trying to format:
format -d c0t0d0, it get:
error occurred with device in use checking: permission denied.
I don't really know solaris (although i know bsd and Linux), what's wrong?
# 4
jep I did.
just:
stop a
boot cdrom -s
format
then it says:
available disk sections:
0. c0t0d0 <drive type unknown>
/pci@1f, 0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0
Specify disk (enter its number):
I chose for the 0:
Error occurred while disk in use check. <etc, see above>
# 10
Hmm, why don't you add the seagate disk to the system on a different controller? Perhaps the installed OS works better than the one on the CD. If not else you could patch the OS you just installed and see if it works better.
I found a bug on this error, it seems to be related to Solaris 10, so you might eventually be able to get it to work if you download Solaris 9 CD 1 of 2 from sun.com and follow the boot cdrom proceedure :-)
7/M.
