Subject: Re: cannot boot netbsd, manual install from solaris
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 03/12/2005 20:31:41
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:22:28PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> I think newfs tries to rewrite the disk label, which is likely to cause
> an updated label to be written - which may well create a BSD label.
>
> It might be possible to use newfs -F to avoid this; see the manpage.
Thank you, that did the trick. Now Solaris can see its disklabel and
NetBSD can see its filesystem.
Ben