Subject: Re: mounting Solaris partition
To: Joseph Red <jred@worldnet.att.net>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/11/1998 10:21:16
You are trying to mount a Solaris/SPARC disk on a NetBSD/sparc machine,
right?  The disklabels for both of the x86 versions of those operating
systems are completely different and do not interoperate w/SPARC.


On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Joseph Red wrote:

> > 	Assuming you are sure sd0c is the right partition... what does
> > 	a disklabel sd0 return?
> 
> # disklabel sd0
> sd0: no disk label
> # /dev/rsd0c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: SCSI disk
> label: fictitious
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 1008
> cylinders: 2358
> total sectors: 2376864
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinder skew: 0
> headswitch: 0		#milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0	#milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
> 
> 1 partitions:
> #	size	offset	fstype	[fsize bsize	cpg]
>  a:536870911	      0       unused    0      0        # (Cyl. 0-532610 
> *)
> disklabel: boot block size 0
> disklabel: super block size 0
> disklabel: partition a: partition extends past end of unit
> disklabel: warning, unused partition c: size 2376864 offset 0
> 
> 
> 
> I can boot this disk to Solaris, if that makes any difference.
> 
> Joe

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