by Work » Wed, 05 Sep 2001 23:01:23
I wanted to reinstall solaris 2.6 on my sun machine. I would like to know at
most how much space I could assign to root partition. Thanks. Fol.lowing is
the output of command "uname -a" on my sun machine
SunOS sun20-1 5.6 Generic_105181-05 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
by Darren Dunha » Thu, 06 Sep 2001 04:54:38
No more than 1G if your PROM is less than version 2.6.
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by somebody+use.. » Thu, 06 Sep 2001 10:01:40
>> SunOS sun20-1 5.6 Generic_105181-05 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
> No more than 2G unless you're using an Ultra architecture.
> No more than 1G if your PROM is less than version 2.6.
Just make sure the root partition is wholly contained within
the first 2GB of the disk and you'll be fine (1GB for the really
old machines).
-greg
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Just wondering, is there a patch that is floating out there for this
problem? Basically, I am using a Jumpstart server to build
2.6 boxes and it builds fine except for the reboot and it says that
it cannot find the boot block for the drive (I've tried 2 different
drives of the same model). i have even tried running "installboot"
manually and the command completes successfully but it still
fails the bootup process. The only patch that I saw that might
have anything to do with scsi was 106173-03. Has anyone
else seen this problem? Also 4GB EIDE drives work fine
for the Jumpstart (it is configured with "free" for slice 0, so
the partitioning info is not relevant - in otherwords we are using
the entire slice 0 for our /, /usr, etc and another slice for swap
but that's it).
Here's the bootup error:
Rebooting with command:
args:
bootblk: can't find the boot program
Program terminated
Type help for more information
ok probe-scsi
Target 3
Unit 0 Disk IBM DDRS34560SUN4.2GS98E98432G8752
(C) Copyright IBM Corp.
1997. All rights reserved.
TIA,
Rich
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