Moving ZFS disk into Solaris with UFS
Doing another jumpstart installation I stumbled upon the following error:
Processing profile
- Opening Flash archive
- Validating Flash archive
- Selecting all disks
- Configuring boot device
ERROR: The boot disk (c0t0d0) is not selected
ERROR: Flash installation failed
Solaris installation program exited.
An obvious decision was to check the disk with format utility. Printing its partition information I saw the following picture:
Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector 0 unassigned wm 0 0 0 1 unassigned wm 0 0 0 2 backup wm 34 33.91GB 71116540 3 unassigned wm 0 0 0 4 unassigned wm 0 0 0 5 unassigned wm 0 0 0 6 unassigned wm 0 0 0 7 unassigned wm 0 0 0 8 reserved wm 71116542 8.00MB 71132925
“How come I have nine partitions”, that was my first reaction?! And just in a jiffy I recalled that this disk used to was a part of ZFS pool and of course it had been formatted with EFI label. So, how to change it back from EFI to SMI label. To successfully accomplish that I had to run “format -e”, because without “-e” you could change nothing.
# format -e c0t0d0 partition> l [0] SMI Label [1] EFI Label Specify Label type[1]: 0 Auto configuration via format.dat[no]? y partition> print Current partition table (default): Total disk cylinders available: 24620 + 2 (reserved cylinders) Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 root wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 1 swap wu 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 2 backup wu 0 - 24619 33.92GB (24620/0/0) 71127180 3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 6 usr wm 0 - 24619 33.92GB (24620/0/0) 71127180 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 partition> q
Sorted. Now I was able to continue my interrupted jumpstart.