[SunHELP] disk label

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Mon 2001-02-05 (23:04), Steve Wingate wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing Solaris 8 on an SS20. I replaced the upper
> internal disk with a 9GB SCA disk. The disk doesn't seem recognized by
> probe-scsi, but the install does let me partition it.

Ouch. If probe-scsi doesn't see the disk, there might be a target id 
conflict. In such a case it's dangerous to access any of the two disks...

  However when I reboot
> the boot device isn't recognized.

Sure. Boot is done by the OpenPROM, the same device that doesn't see your
disk :-(

  I've tried this install 4 times today and
> am getting nowhere. I may have messed up the disk label process.

probe-scsi output has nothing to do with disk labels, it's working on an
entirely different level

First make sure that your disks appear at different scsi id addresses.

Steffen
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