Subject: Re: Sun4m - How do I remove the *BSD boot block?
To: Derek McCallum <derek_mccallum@yahoo.com>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/30/2003 20:20:55
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:54:35PM +0000, Derek McCallum wrote:
> 
> I appreciate I am asking how do I turn away from
> NetBSD and back to Solaris. It's not entirely the
> case, one of the boxes will remain on as BSD. I really
> do need to recover one the disks though! They are both
> Sun (Fujitsu) 9.1GB disks.
> 

Silly question - did you accept the default partitioning of the disk
that the solaris installer gave you?  That would give you a single
large partition which the older bootproms cannot cope with.  Try
making a / partition less than 2Gig and slice the rest up however you
like.

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Brett Lymn