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How to fix? Installed Solaris 9 on new (non-Sun) drive - now getting WARNING: ... (dad0) Corrupt label - wrong magic number
Hi,
I recently replaced the original 15GB Seagate drive in my Sun Blade 100 with a retail (non-Sun) Seagate 120GB drive. I then did a new installation of Solaris 9 on the drive, and everything seems to be ok, i.e., I can boot to Solaris, etc.
The problem that I'm having is that whenever the system boots, I am getting a warning msg:
WARNING: /pci@1f,0 ................ (dad0)
Corrupt label - wrong magic number
I understand that this msg is because the disk is not properly "labeled" for Solaris (again, this was not a Sun drive, which I gather are pre-formatted and pre-labelled).
My question are:
1) Is there any way to either eliminate the warning msg without having to re-install Solaris? If so, how (in detail) can I do this?
2) If I have to, to get rid of the warning, I don't mind re-installing Solaris, but I've done Solaris installations a lot of times. All of the previous times were on Sun drives, and I didn't see anywhere during the installation procedure that I'm suppose to label the drive, so: If I have to do a re-install to eliminate the warning, what do I have to do differently during the installation?
In researching this, I found some information that indicates that the problem may be because the Solaris installation configured some slices/partitions to start in cylinder 0, so I have tried to boot from cdrom into single-user mode, and run format->partition->label, but I still get the warning.
I've also tried format->partition, and adjusted the swap partition to start at cylinder 1 instead of cylinder 0, then done "label", but I still get the warning when I reboot.
Here's the current "prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0":
bash-2.05# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
* /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 (volume "abc") partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 255 sectors/track
* 16 tracks/cylinder
* 4080 sectors/cylinder
* 57461 cylinders
* 57459 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 0 4080 4079
* 234428640 4080 234432719
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 8192640 205754400 213947039 /
1 3 01 4080 8188560 8192639
2 5 00 0 234432720 234432719
7 8 00 213947040 20481600 234428639 /export/home
And, here's the current format->partition->print:
partition> print
Volume: abc
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 57459 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 2008 - 52437 98.11GB (50430/0/0) 205754400
1 swap wu 1 - 2007 3.90GB (2007/0/0) 8188560
2 backup wm 0 - 57458 111.79GB (57459/0/0) 234432720
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 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 home wm 52438 - 57457 9.77GB (5020/0/0) 20481600
Finally, here's the current /format.dat file:
bash-2.05# cat format.dat
#
# New disk/partition type saved on Fri Mar 24 03:06:28 2006
#
disk_type = "ST3120814A" \
: ctlr = ata : ncyl = 57459 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 57461 \
: nhead = 16 : nsect = 255 : rpm = 5400
partition = "original" \
: disk = "ST3120814A" : ctlr = ata \
: 0 = 2008, 205754400 : 1 = 0, 8192640 : 2 = backup, \
wm, 0, 234432720 : 7 = home, wm, 52438, 20481600
I hope that someone here can help me with this. I know that this is kind of dumb (a couple of people have suggested I just ignore the warning), but this is really bugging me, and I've spent a couple of days already on this :(!!
Thanks in advance,
Jim
I recently replaced the original 15GB Seagate drive in my Sun Blade 100 with a retail (non-Sun) Seagate 120GB drive. I then did a new installation of Solaris 9 on the drive, and everything seems to be ok, i.e., I can boot to Solaris, etc.
The problem that I'm having is that whenever the system boots, I am getting a warning msg:
WARNING: /pci@1f,0 ................ (dad0)
Corrupt label - wrong magic number
I understand that this msg is because the disk is not properly "labeled" for Solaris (again, this was not a Sun drive, which I gather are pre-formatted and pre-labelled).
My question are:
1) Is there any way to either eliminate the warning msg without having to re-install Solaris? If so, how (in detail) can I do this?
2) If I have to, to get rid of the warning, I don't mind re-installing Solaris, but I've done Solaris installations a lot of times. All of the previous times were on Sun drives, and I didn't see anywhere during the installation procedure that I'm suppose to label the drive, so: If I have to do a re-install to eliminate the warning, what do I have to do differently during the installation?
In researching this, I found some information that indicates that the problem may be because the Solaris installation configured some slices/partitions to start in cylinder 0, so I have tried to boot from cdrom into single-user mode, and run format->partition->label, but I still get the warning.
I've also tried format->partition, and adjusted the swap partition to start at cylinder 1 instead of cylinder 0, then done "label", but I still get the warning when I reboot.
Here's the current "prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0":
bash-2.05# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
* /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 (volume "abc") partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 255 sectors/track
* 16 tracks/cylinder
* 4080 sectors/cylinder
* 57461 cylinders
* 57459 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* Unallocated space:
* First Sector Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 0 4080 4079
* 234428640 4080 234432719
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 8192640 205754400 213947039 /
1 3 01 4080 8188560 8192639
2 5 00 0 234432720 234432719
7 8 00 213947040 20481600 234428639 /export/home
And, here's the current format->partition->print:
partition> print
Volume: abc
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 57459 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 2008 - 52437 98.11GB (50430/0/0) 205754400
1 swap wu 1 - 2007 3.90GB (2007/0/0) 8188560
2 backup wm 0 - 57458 111.79GB (57459/0/0) 234432720
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 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 home wm 52438 - 57457 9.77GB (5020/0/0) 20481600
Finally, here's the current /format.dat file:
bash-2.05# cat format.dat
#
# New disk/partition type saved on Fri Mar 24 03:06:28 2006
#
disk_type = "ST3120814A" \
: ctlr = ata : ncyl = 57459 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 57461 \
: nhead = 16 : nsect = 255 : rpm = 5400
partition = "original" \
: disk = "ST3120814A" : ctlr = ata \
: 0 = 2008, 205754400 : 1 = 0, 8192640 : 2 = backup, \
wm, 0, 234432720 : 7 = home, wm, 52438, 20481600
I hope that someone here can help me with this. I know that this is kind of dumb (a couple of people have suggested I just ignore the warning), but this is really bugging me, and I've spent a couple of days already on this :(!!
Thanks in advance,
Jim
Could be for several reasons including the /etc/format.dat file in Solaris 10 is more up to date and the sd device driver in Solaris 10 1/06 is more intelligent/flexible then the sd drivers in Solaris 9 12/03.
Just out of curiousity, are you trying Solaris 9 12/03 for a specific reason ? If you can, go straight to Solaris 10 1/06.
Just out of curiousity, are you trying Solaris 9 12/03 for a specific reason ? If you can, go straight to Solaris 10 1/06.
You can label the disk without it re-formatting it. Just go into "format" and select the drive and label it.
ASKER
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestions. As I think I mentioned earlier, I have tried format many times, but still was getting the warning at boot.
At this point in time, I believe that the problem is that an earlier Solaris 10 installation had done something or written something to the drive that prevented the Solaris 9 format command from properly writing a label, or from writing a proper (to Solaris 9) label.
I removed the drive from the SB100, and put it into a PC, and wiped it clean using Seagate DiscWizard, and it's ok now.
FYI, since I've come up with a resolution, I am going to request that this question be closed.
Nukfor,
My actual goal when all of this started was to go to Solaris 9 9/05. I just mentioned about booting to the Solaris 9 12/03 CD because I had used that to test if it was also having the warning msg.
Jim
Thanks for the suggestions. As I think I mentioned earlier, I have tried format many times, but still was getting the warning at boot.
At this point in time, I believe that the problem is that an earlier Solaris 10 installation had done something or written something to the drive that prevented the Solaris 9 format command from properly writing a label, or from writing a proper (to Solaris 9) label.
I removed the drive from the SB100, and put it into a PC, and wiped it clean using Seagate DiscWizard, and it's ok now.
FYI, since I've come up with a resolution, I am going to request that this question be closed.
Nukfor,
My actual goal when all of this started was to go to Solaris 9 9/05. I just mentioned about booting to the Solaris 9 12/03 CD because I had used that to test if it was also having the warning msg.
Jim
You can also post to the "Misc" area to ask that this question be closed and your points refunded.
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I did some further testing...
I installed Solaris 9 9/05 onto the 120GB drive. Then, when I boot Solaris 9 9/05 off of the hard drive OR off of the 9 9/05 CDROM, I get the "corrupted label" warning.
If I boot a Solaris 10 1/06 CDROM, I *DON'T* get the "corrupt label" warning.
If I boot a Solaris 9 12/03 CDROM, I *DO* get the "corrupt label" warning.
If I go by the Solaris 10 test, the hard drive IS properly labelled, but if I go by either Solaris 9 9/05 or 12/03, the hard drive gives the "corrupt label" warning.
In all cases, when I go into format->partition-print, the partitions/slices look all right.
Any guesses as to what might be going on?
Jim