I have here an Ultra 60 equipped with an IBM Harddisk (36 GB). I managed
to install Ubuntu but want to switch to Solaris 10 now. Unfortunately
the Solaris installer only tells me: "No disks found, make sure they
have power and are cabled" and takes me to the shell.
However I could label the disk using format, I could partition it (I set
most of the partitions to unassigned with a size of 0) but it didn't help.
What is necessary to tell Solaris, there *is* a harddisk?
Uwe
Hi
Boot into rescue mode from the Ubuntu cd and use fdisk to delete all
partitions and then use the 'o' option to create a new empty DOS
partition table.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SLED 10.0 SP1 x86_64 Kernel 2.6.16.53-0.8-smp
up 3 days 22:01, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.15, 0.12
I had the same problem, and wiping the partitions from linux did not
work. It worked by slicing the disk from a solaris 7 installation cd.
rgrds
Same here. Ubuntu rescue did not let me make the partition DOS-type so I
used / and ext2. Under Solaris 10 I tried to make the partitioning
manually by creating the / and swap partition and writing the label. Did
not work. I will now try to get some Solaris 7 media.
Uwe
Good luck finding a Solaris 7 boot CD.
Any SPARC boot CD/DVD should be able to handle this.
The newer the better really. Just boot cdrom -s
from the ok prompt
When you get a # prompt, type format -e
Then label the disk type 0 and quit format.
I'd be surprised if that did not do the trick
The other option is to boot cdrom -s and run the format command?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SLED 10.0 SP1 x86_64 Kernel 2.6.16.53-0.8-smp
up 4 days 14:16, 1 user, load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.10
It finally worked! Just the format didn't help, but when I used "label"
Solaris asked me if I wanted to create a new label and autoformat the disk.
Now I am installing Disk 5 of 5, thanks for the help.
Uwe