Sun services viewing the disk vtoc every disk in the solaris os has a label set aside for. Displaying disk label information managing devices in oracle. By convention which slice on an intel based system contains the bootblock and vtoc. The vtoc label is still available for disks less than 2 terabytes in size. Which is a method by which the solaris 10 operating system can be installed on a system. While using smi label also called as smi vtoc, solaris fails to. The cds disk maintains a sun vtoc in the zeroth block and a backup label at the end. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. Whats new in the solaris 10 1009 release for installation oracle. Starting with the oracle solaris 10 811 release, you can use the luupgrade command to install a zfs flash archive to an alternate boot environment. First of all, the sparc and the x86 vtoc are different, but i dont think thats what youre talking about. Solaris 10 and 11 provide two main partitioning labels options, smi sun.
For releases prior to the solaris 10 1009 release, this feature is delivered in the following patch utilities patches. Sun provided me with a workaround patch to chkprobe which produced the following output. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Hi, does anyone know how i can remove the vtoc from a disk.
On vtoc labeled disks, information about tracks and cylinders is included. Which command can analyze the patch requirements of a system and automatically patch that system with. For the sparc m10, the default label for root pool disks with xcp 2230 or later is efi gpt. Starting with the solaris 10 1009 release, you can use the vtoc label on a disk of. The installation includes operating system with patches, eagle firewall with patches and. Check out device tree cleanup technote, there could be a possibility of device tree having issues you can perform a cleanup by following link.
Ldoms, solaris, zfs, and disk resizing ars technica. If your disk has an efi label and you are using solaris 10 save the current disk vtoc with prtvtoc1m, in case something goes wrong you will be able to restore the initial label using. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. This feature allows disks that are larger than 2 tb to be used as boot drives, but the usable space from the label is limited to 2 tb. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. I get a vtoc or cannot mount error installing solaris.
San disks on solaris in error state and cannot get initialised. You can also get this feature on a system running oracle solaris 10 9 10 by applying the relevant patches listed for cr 6868012. I restart it today because it halts during working. Solaris 10 fails to install on efi labeled disks wad of stuff. Conversely if youre reading this because youve lost the solaris 10 1 of a sun. Solaris 10 x86 supports efi labels as well as the new ufs format that allows filesystems over 1 terrabyte. You usually label a disk after you change its slices.
Sun services intermediate system administration for the solaris 10. With the older sun style vtoc labels, if you ever overwrite the first the first 512b on cylinder 0 of the disk eg. To label a disk means to write slice information onto the disk. System requirements and recommendations oracle solaris. Starting with the oracle solaris 10 10 09 release, you can use the vtoc label on a disk of any size, but the addressable space by the vtoc is limited to 2 tb. I have been trying to customize a solaris install cdrom to my own needs.
Whats new in the solaris 10 1009 release for installation. Installation bugs oracle solaris 10 811 release notes. Thus, data corruption or vtoc label corruption occurs. Using solaris smi and efi labels with infinibox infinidat support. This was fine in a system that had at least one vtoc labeled disk as the. I try to boot from solaris 10 cd but it shows a single disk but there were two operating systems solaris 10 and windows xp. Smi the traditional vtoc label for disks that are less than 2 tb in size.
Attempting to patch several servers using live upgrade release. If you are only using disks smaller than 2 tb on your systems, managing disks will be the same as in previous solaris releases. The oracle solaris release supports the following two disk labels. The default disk label when oracle solaris is installed is an efi gpt label. A volunteerled, unofficial website has an incomplete list of patches and bugs. To display disk label information, use the prtvtoc command. In addition, you can use the format e command to label a disk 2 tb in size or less with an efi label. Efi provides support for disks that are larger than 2 tb. Does anyone have any idea how the default vtoc is produced on the solaris 10 and solaris 9.
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