[OpenIndiana-discuss] Garbage being printed by format command?

[Oscar del Rio]

On 04/ 1/11 10:50 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>
> I had done an OI install onto a PATA disk. After reboot, I followed a
> howto to convert the rpool into a mirror, and it seems to all work.
> However, when I run the format command, I see this:
>
> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
> 0. c1d0 <ð¦äþäþPp¸nHãþ®ÈpÀ…äþð¦äþäþppØn0"ãþõ cyl 19454 alt 2 hd 255
> sec 63>
> /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 4/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0
> 1. c1d1 <ð¦äþäþPp¸nHãþ®ÈpÀ…äþð¦äþäþppØn0"ãþõ cyl 19454 alt 2 hd 255
> sec 63>
> /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 4/ide at 0/cmdk at 1,0
>
> Does it seem like I hosed the label or something? I can boot from this
> rpool and everything *seems* to work. Not sure if I should be
> concerned or not?

It was posted recently in the osol list. Bug ID 6969598: "junk in format 
for cmdk disks", fixed in snv_154.