[SunRescue] Format parameters for .....

BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed May 9 12:05:31 CDT 2001


> > > > > > Specify disk type (enter its number): 0
> > > > > > Must reformat device to 512-byte blocksize.  Continue? y
> > > > > > Formatting...
> > > > > > Auto configure failed
> 
> I've also had good luck booting Linux from a cdrom
> and using fdisk to create a sun disk label. That
> was
> the only way I could recover some the old 2gig
> disks
> I have.

Hmmm, now that is an interesting approach.  I will have to
snoop around the Linux fdisk source and see what it is doing.
Thanks for the tip, Eric...

Bob

> Eric H




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