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pcsol1996 | 1 Apr 18:53
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Murdock was Re: New Solaris Patches available at riddleware.com 20070308

--- In solarisx86 <at> yahoogroups.com, John Weekley <weekleyj@...> wrote:
> >
> > I have compiled many of these "garbage" that include mplayer, 
transcoder,
> > MKVToolnix, LibSDL-1.2.11, mjpeg-tools-1.9, FontForge, libdvdread-
0.9.7,
> > libdvdcss, lame, SoX, blender, dvd95, etc. With all these garbage 
I can view videos,
> > DVDs, transform FLV files to avi files so friends can easily view 
videos, rip from
> > our CDs songs that are can transform  to mp3 files so I can 
listen to them , etc.
> > And yes all of these garbage install under /opt/gnu! Anybody 
interested?
> > A.S.
Not garbage at all.  Your mplayer will play all modern wmv files, 
blastwaves won't.  I just don't want to see core Solaris become just 
like Linux.  Work like you do is invaluable (as is the work at 
Blastwave and elsewhere).  Thanks a bunch!

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dick hoogendijk | 1 Apr 18:53
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cdrw, cdreford and rmvolmgr on SXDE 02/07

On solaris 10 I have to disable rmvolmgr before using cdrecord or else
this program refuses to work. (don't know about cdrw).

But on solaris express dev edition this new HAL is introduced. rmvolmgr
still exists. Do I still disable it before using cdrecord? And how
about solaris native cdrw program?

Another thing is this popping up of a blank CD on my gnome-2.16 desktop
*even* after disabling rmvolmgr! How can I disable this?

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Ian Collins | 1 Apr 21:22
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Re: cdrw, cdreford and rmvolmgr on SXDE 02/07

dick hoogendijk wrote:

>On solaris 10 I have to disable rmvolmgr before using cdrecord or else
>this program refuses to work. (don't know about cdrw).
>
>But on solaris express dev edition this new HAL is introduced. rmvolmgr
>still exists. Do I still disable it before using cdrecord? And how
>about solaris native cdrw program?
>
>  
>
No, the Nautilus CD recorder GUI (which uses cdrecord) and cdrw work
fine out of the box.

>Another thing is this popping up of a blank CD on my gnome-2.16 desktop
>*even* after disabling rmvolmgr! How can I disable this?
>
>  
>
Why bother?

Ian

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dick hoogendijk | 1 Apr 22:36
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linux screwed up my solaris boot record


I tested the Ubuntu linux distro as a favor for my son. I did it on a
*second* harddrive (solaris is on c0d0s0). But still, that f** linux
installer ruined my solaris grub and installed its own version (which of
course, does not see my solaris on the first disk). Why on earth the
installer interfered on a disk on which it has no access is a complete
mystery, but alas.. <sigh>

Can I easely restore my solaris Express Dev Edition? How do I do that?
Hopefully I won't have to reinstall everything.

And yes, next time I'll *disable* my solaris disk completely.
This won't happen again.
But for now, please some help in restoring solaris grub.

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Tony Reeves | 1 Apr 22:54
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Re: linux screwed up my solaris boot record

dick hoogendijk wrote:
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> 
> 
> I tested the Ubuntu linux distro as a favor for my son. I did it on a
> *second* harddrive (solaris is on c0d0s0). But still, that f** linux
> installer ruined my solaris grub and installed its own version (which of
> course, does not see my solaris on the first disk). Why on earth the
> installer interfered on a disk on which it has no access is a complete
> mystery, but alas.. <sigh>
> 
> Can I easely restore my solaris Express Dev Edition? How do I do that?
> Hopefully I won't have to reinstall everything.
> 
> And yes, next time I'll *disable* my solaris disk completely.
> This won't happen again.
> But for now, please some help in restoring solaris grub.
> 

Sounds like the Linux installer put Grub boot loader into the boot drive 
MBR.  If you want to put things back the way they were, use a 
dos/freedos boot cd and run "fdisk /mbr"  then use fdisk to make sure 
that your original solaris partition is bootable.  You should now boot 
into the Solaris grub menu.

If you want to retain Ubuntu, add a chainloader boot to the Solaris 
parition in the grub menu.lst in ubuntu.

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Marc Lobelle | 1 Apr 23:46
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recovering contents of a crashed disk

Hello,

One of the disks (SATA) of a solaris x86 10 system (ufs partitions) 
crashed and was not properly backed up. The disk still turns but gives 
many errors and is unuseable with usual tools. Does any of you know a 
way to copy it physically on another disk in order to have a corrupted 
but readable disk or is there any other way to recover at least part of 
the contents ?

Thanks for your advice

Marc

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dick hoogendijk | 2 Apr 00:40
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Re: linux screwed up my solaris boot record


Tony Reeves wrote:
> dick hoogendijk wrote:

>> I tested the Ubuntu linux distro as a favor for my son. I did it on a
>> *second* harddrive (solaris is on c0d0s0). But still, that f** linux
>> installer ruined my solaris grub and installed its own version (which of
>> course, does not see my solaris on the first disk).
>> Can I easely restore my solaris Express Dev Edition? How do I do that?
>> Hopefully I won't have to reinstall everything.
>
> Sounds like the Linux installer put Grub boot loader into the boot drive
> MBR.  If you want to put things back the way they were, use a
> dos/freedos boot cd and run "fdisk /mbr"  then use fdisk to make sure
> that your original solaris partition is bootable.  You should now boot
> into the Solaris grub menu.

I don't have a (free)DOS diskette. Are you sure it can only be done with a
dos disk? Can't it be handled by the solaris boot dvd?

> If you want to retain Ubuntu, add a chainloader boot to the Solaris
> parition in the grub menu.lst in ubuntu.

No, I don't want to retain it. I want my solaris back and chainload
whatever from there ;-)

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Tony Reeves | 2 Apr 01:29
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Re: linux screwed up my solaris boot record

dick hoogendijk wrote:
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> 
> 
> Tony Reeves wrote:
>  > dick hoogendijk wrote:
> 
>  >> I tested the Ubuntu linux distro as a favor for my son. I did it on a
>  >> *second* harddrive (solaris is on c0d0s0). But still, that f** linux
>  >> installer ruined my solaris grub and installed its own version (which of
>  >> course, does not see my solaris on the first disk).
>  >> Can I easely restore my solaris Express Dev Edition? How do I do that?
>  >> Hopefully I won't have to reinstall everything.
>  >
>  > Sounds like the Linux installer put Grub boot loader into the boot drive
>  > MBR. If you want to put things back the way they were, use a
>  > dos/freedos boot cd and run "fdisk /mbr" then use fdisk to make sure
>  > that your original solaris partition is bootable. You should now boot
>  > into the Solaris grub menu.
> 
> I don't have a (free)DOS diskette. Are you sure it can only be done with a
> dos disk? Can't it be handled by the solaris boot dvd?

Solaris fdisk... http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5166/6mbb1kq1i?a=view
indicates it can install a new mbr, but I cannot grok how.

My personal solution is here... http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and use 
"fdisk /mbr" in freedos.

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sol11x86 | 2 Apr 02:31
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Re: linux screwed up my solaris boot record


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "dick hoogendijk" <dick <at> nagual.nl>
> 
> Tony Reeves wrote:
> > dick hoogendijk wrote:
> 
> >> I tested the Ubuntu linux distro as a favor for my son. I did it on a
> >> *second* harddrive (solaris is on c0d0s0). But still, that f** linux
> >> installer ruined my solaris grub and installed its own version (which of
> >> course, does not see my solaris on the first disk).
> >> Can I easely restore my solaris Express Dev Edition? How do I do that?
> >> Hopefully I won't have to reinstall everything.
> >
> > Sounds like the Linux installer put Grub boot loader into the boot drive
> > MBR.  If you want to put things back the way they were, use a
> > dos/freedos boot cd and run "fdisk /mbr"  then use fdisk to make sure
> > that your original solaris partition is bootable.  You should now boot
> > into the Solaris grub menu.
> 
> I don't have a (free)DOS diskette. Are you sure it can only be done with a
> dos disk? Can't it be handled by the solaris boot dvd?
> 
> > If you want to retain Ubuntu, add a chainloader boot to the Solaris
> > parition in the grub menu.lst in ubuntu.
> 
> No, I don't want to retain it. I want my solaris back and chainload
> whatever from there ;-)

I ran into this about a month ago.  If you boot off the Solaris media, and
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sol11x86 | 2 Apr 02:48
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Re: recovering contents of a crashed disk


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From: Marc Lobelle <ml <at> info.ucl.ac.be>
> Hello,
> 
> One of the disks (SATA) of a solaris x86 10 system (ufs partitions) 
> crashed and was not properly backed up. The disk still turns but gives 
> many errors and is unuseable with usual tools. Does any of you know a 
> way to copy it physically on another disk in order to have a corrupted 
> but readable disk or is there any other way to recover at least part of 
> the contents ?

I guess it depends on the type of crash.  In my experience, I've suffered
head crashes, disk degredation and electronics failure.   Head crashses
are pretty hard because of the damage it does to the disk, but if it still
spins, there's a chance you get  can get the data off.  Mount the sucker
read only and give it a whirl.

When you say unusable with the normal tools, what have you tried.

I've also had some of my big IDE disks (160MB, 250MB) start getting 
alot of errors.  In the case of trying to recover the data, I used the format
read/analyze or write/analyze (doesn't harm data) to try and clear up
the errors.  I just did this on a 250GB about six months ago and was
able to get the data off.  Then I did a couple of format/verifies on the
disk and it managed to clean up the disk to be more usable.  This
took 2 days to run twice. It's really too bad that Solaris doesn't have 
SMARTtools so it can  get information off the disk befoe  it's really 
having problems.
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