Re: Problems installing to SparcStation5

[Frank Wißmann <frank.wissmann41%web.de@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer schrieb:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:54:27PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> > > Can you collect the boot message of the system and send it there ?
> > > Either cut-n-paste from a serial console, or getting the output of
> > > 'dmesg' over the network.
> > Well, I'll do it by hand :-(.
> >
> > dmesg says:
> > sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <Quantum, FB1080J SUN1.05, 6300> disk fixed
> > sd0:(esp0:0:3:0): not ready, data = 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00
> > sd0: drive offline
> > sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 8) 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers
>
> And nothing after that ? What happens after a 'disklabel sd0' ?

Well, after proceeding and escaping to the shell I entered "disklabel 
sd0". The message was: "disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not 
supported by device".
Seems to me as if the HD is somehow infunctional.

HTH Frank

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