Tomasz Rojek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to turn off visibility of ide hard disk at OBP level, so
> solaris cannot see it?
>
> 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"

Solaris is expecting to find your CDROM at Secondary Master.
Make your Gentoo disk Primary Slave.

Another problem is that your Gentoo disk is most likely formatted with a
DOS type partition table. Boot from CDROM and use either Solaris format
or Linux fdisk to install a BSD style disk label, then re-slice the disk
and re-install Linux.