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Old 01-16-2008, 08:36 AM
Casper H.S. Dik
 
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Default Re: How to "turn off" ide disk from OBP?

"Tomasz Rojek" <tiroy.usunto@poczta.onet.pl> writes:

>Why do I need it? I've decided to add a secondary ide disk to my Sun Blade
>150 to install there gentoo and play around with it. It works good (starts
>up from secondary master). I though it would be good to start solaris
>(installed on primary master) from silo. So I have configured silo, but it
>looks that solaris will not start up until I disconnect ide cable from
>gentto disk! Otherwise it complaints about gentoo disk:


>"corrupt label - bad geometry"



>it panics and resets. Why the hell it cares for this disk? I don't want to
>disconnect ide cable every time I want to boot into solaris, it is stupid. I
>tought about deleting disk2 alias from OBP, but I don't know what would be
>the impact on ide bus. Or maybe there is more elegant way to accomplish
>this?


Which version of Solaris is this? It should not panic when confronted
with a bad label. What type of panic is it?


Casper
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