Well, I finally got around to actually sticking the drive with Solaris x86 partitions in a Linux system, compiled a new kernel with UFS filesystem support, and Solaris x86 support.
However, when I went to run fdisk, it's still recognizing the Solaris partitions as either "swap space" or "unknown". Is there something I might have missed? Or, possibly another potential gotcha. There was a warning message I came across about Solaris, in some cases, handling disk geometry different than Linux does; don't have the exact message handy but something like "partition doesn't end on correct cylinder, should be A, B, C" (with A, B, C being the disk geometry parameters). The end result being that Linux *won't* be able to read the disk. Anyone familiar with this one? There's some information on the Solaris disk that I'd still like to recover if at all possible, so I don't want to give up too easily on this one. TIA Paul Greene At 09:58 PM 11/20/2001 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >Paul Greene wrote: > > > Can I take this hard disk out, stick it in another system as a second hard > > drive, with Redhat on the first hard drive, mount the messed up disk, and > > be able to read both the Solaris partitions on the disk (fdisk recognizes > > the Solaris partitions as type 82, Linux swap space?), as well as the NTFS > > partitions (it was a dual boot system)? I have Redhat 7.0 and 7.1; would > > either one be able to read both types of partitions? > > Yeap. You need to (re)compile your kernel to enable this support. Under >Filesystems, enable 'UFS Filesystem Support', then scroll down to 'Partition >Types', and enable the Slowaris one. Recompile and you're done. > >-- >H | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John Gardner > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . 303.442.6410 x130 > Director of Internet Operations / SysAdmin . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave, #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
