SUMMARY: Restoring a normal VTOC after zfs has been on the disk

Thanks to Richard S. who answered immediately and got me on track again:

run:-
format -e
then:-
Format > label
[0] SMI label
[1] EFI label

Select SMI ;-)


On Tuesday 14 August 2007, Markus Mayer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a system that I need to reinstall and the disks in the machine were
> previously used with full disk zfs partitions.  Now I need to restore a
> normal VTOC so the installer can install Solaris on the disk, however this
> seems to not be possible.  A disk format didn't change anything, and
> various attempts with fdisk return only the error message "Cannot get disk
> label geometry".
>
> Does anyone know how I can restore the disk to a normal partition table?
>
> regards
> Markus
>
>
> What I have now:
> partition>
> Current partition table (original):
> Total disk sectors available: 286722911 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
>
> Part      Tag    Flag     First Sector         Size         Last Sector
>   0        usr    wm                34      136.72GB          286722911
>   1 unassigned    wm                 0           0               0
>   2 unassigned    wm                 0           0               0
>   3 unassigned    wm                 0           0               0
>   4 unassigned    wm                 0           0               0
>   5 unassigned    wm                 0           0               0
>   6 unassigned    wm                 0           0               0
>   8   reserved    wm         286722912        8.00MB          286739295
>
> What I want to get back to is something like this:
> partition> Current partition table (original):
> Total disk cylinders available: 14087 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
>
> Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
>   0       root    wm     825 -  1855       10.01GB    (1031/0/0)   20982912
>   1       swap    wu       0 -   824        8.01GB    (825/0/0)    16790400
>   2     backup    wm       0 - 14086      136.71GB    (14087/0/0) 286698624
>   3 unassigned    wm    1864 -  1928      645.94MB    (65/0/0)      1322880
>   4 unassigned    wm    1929 -  2032        1.01GB    (104/0/0)     2116608
>   5 unassigned    wm    2033 - 14086      116.98GB    (12054/0/0) 245323008
>   6 unassigned    wm    1860 -  1863       39.75MB    (4/0/0)         81408
>   7 unassigned    wm    1856 -  1859       39.75MB    (4/0/0)         81408
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