Strange to ressurrect such an old thread that the OP seems to have disappeared from anyway...
Linux does not expect an MBR. In fact, by default, when you initialise disks for use by Veritas Volume Manager, it uses Sun disk labels (which surprised me), e.g.
Code:
Disk /dev/sdb8 (Sun disk label): 30 heads, 128 sectors, 55508 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3840 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb8p3 u 0 55508 106575360 5 Whole disk
/dev/sdb8p8 u 0 55508 106575360 f Unknown
The endianness of the data on the filesystem is only an issue if you are trying to read it programmatically (i.e. reading multiple byte values), and can be fixed programmatically if desired... however ASCII will still be in the correct order.
Just that the Subject says.
I am looking for a C compiler for Linux x86 that will allow me to compile a C source code file and the resulting binary will be able to run on a Sparc running Solaris.
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi there,
I am trying to mount a SAN volume (which is mapped to solaris sparc) partitioned with ufs filesystem onto a linux (intel processor 64bit) server.
*I have re-compiled the linux kernel t support ufs fstype with ro mount support.
filesystem on solaris:... (3 Replies)
Hi, I am wanting to get some input on an issue that I have encountered with Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. When installing Linux & booting Linux it freezes almost all the time, I don't know if it is the shell or whatever, but after SILO, it goes wild of freezes, then rebooting all the time. (The display... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I've been searching for answers for two days and didn't find any definite answers on building RAID1 on SPARC. The main problem was with SILO (Sparc Improved boot LOader): can it boot from RAID partition or not. So I just tried it and it works.
I've done this on Debian, but it should be... (0 Replies)
Hi Oracle Linux users,
You can probably guess from the title what the question is:
Does anyone know if Oracle Linux (the Unbreakable variety I think that is) comes in a
SPARC release or, if not, will there be one some time soon ?
Many thanks,
P;):D:b: (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
We are migrating Oracle from Solaris to RHEL 7 and looking for Solaris equivalent commands for Linux.
we are using lot of korn shell scripts built on Solaris so, i am looking for equivalent commands which are using in Solaris..
Could you please help me here by proving any info... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
We are migrating Oracle from Solaris to RHEL 7 and looking for Solaris equivalent commands for Linux.
we are using lot of korn shell scripts built on Solaris so, i am looking for equivalent commands which are using in Solaris..
Could you please help me here by proving any info ... (4 Replies)
-> start /SYS
Are you sure you want to start /SYS (y/n)? y
Starting /SYS
]-> show HOST
/HOST
Targets:
bootmode
diag
domain
Properties:
autorestart = reset
autorunonerror = false
bootfailrecovery = poweroff
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
fdisk
FDISK(8) System Manager's Manual FDISK(8)NAME
fdisk - partition a hard disk [IBM]
SYNOPSIS
fdisk [-hm] [-sn] [file]
OPTIONS -h Number of disk heads is m
-s Number of sectors per track is n
EXAMPLES
fdisk /dev/hd0 # Examine disk partitions
fdisk -h9 /dev/hd0 # Examine disk with 9 heads
DESCRIPTION
When fdisk starts up, it reads in the partition table and displays it. It then presents a menu to allow the user to modify partitions,
store the partition table on a file, or load it from a file. Partitions can be marked as MINIX, DOS or other, as well as active or not.
Using fdisk is self-explanatory. However, be aware that repartitioning a disk will cause information on it to be lost. Rebooting the sys-
tem immediately is mandatory after changing partition sizes and parameters. MINIX, XENIX, PC-IX, and MS-DOS all have different partition
numbering schemes. Thus when using multiple systems on the same disk, be careful.
Note that MINIX, unlike MS-DOS , cannot access the last sector in a partition with an odd number of sectors. The reason that odd partition
sizes do not cause a problem with MS-DOS is that MS-DOS allocates disk space in units of 512-byte sectors, whereas MINIX uses 1K blocks.
Fdisk has a variety of other features that can be seen by typing h.
Fdisk normally knows the geometry of the device by asking the driver. You can use the -h and -s options to override the numbers found.
SEE ALSO part(8).
FDISK(8)