Hallo guys, I am installation a Solaris machine (blade x6270) with x86 Solaris 10 OS. The chassis has only 1 blade server on slot0, the rest are empty. Two issues: 1. I managed to redirect keyboard, mouse and dvd-drive to my laptop (running Vista) as the machine came with neither - using Java ILOM GUI on NetMGT port. However the thing wont allow me to use serial-console simultaneously with the GUI redirection (which i really need) - it only allows me ILOM access on serial-console. Any ideas as to how I can use both serial-console cli and GUI redirect on NetMGT ? ILOM: -> start /SP/console start: Invalid target /SP/console -> start /CH/BL0/console start: Invalid target /CH/BL0/console 2. It happened that the single blade machine came with a faulty hdd on slot 1; so i installed solaris on the first hdd (slot 0) while i awaited the replacement from Oracle/Sun. When the new hdd arrived; plugged it in; the hdd is showing green-light ok; and can be seen at the bios. However; in the OS, the new hdd is not visible: bash# ls /dev/rdsk/*s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 bash#format 0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0 Tried to do the following: bash#devfsadm bash#devfsadm -c disk bash#drvconfig Still nothing on slot 1: bash#format 0. c0t0d0 <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248> /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/sd@0,0 However, there is a change on the 'rawdisk' directory (you can see a new entry "c1t1d0s0") bash# ls /dev/rdsk/*s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0 ===== What am I overlooking here ? I understand that once the OS is installed, the OS might have some trouble seeing the new hdd. The new hdd LED light goes off on its own after about 30 min - probably because of idle time. 1. I need to mount and partition the new hdd 2. I need to mirror the new hdd partitions to be similar to old hdd partitions (but have different partition names) I have poured on several sites on the internet and most basically say the above; use 'devfsadm' and the use 'format' - however this doesnt seem to work to detect my second hdd on the format options. Thanks in advance. w/regards Stephen N.