Problems installing Solaris 10 rel. 1/06 on Dell PowerEdge 2850
Hello,
Tried to install - Solaris does say "No disks".
Wanted to use Sun's driver for LSI PERC 4e/Di RAID contoller which is onboard, so I made the diskette according to instructions. The driver is for Solaris 10 3/05 and there seems to be no new one for 1/06 release.
Used option 5 in the menu [Apply driver updates].
It read the floppy, then went successfully thru the questions stage and then displayed a dialog box saying that there are no disks. Disks are there (2X73GB) as RAID 1 and visible to BIOS.
Tried to specify boot option "acpi-user-options=2" in the GRUB. Then it fails to mount the floppy drive which is the only way to add the ITU driver.
Please, help.
Thanks in advance.
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AlexG] at [2007-11-25 22:57:54]
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Tried to specify boot option "acpi-user-options=2" in the GRUB. Then it fails to mount the floppy drive
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Yeah, I knew this was going to happen...
This is bug 6312400:
Synopsis: ps/2 floppy is not enumerated when acpi is disabled or not supported
<a href="http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6312400" target="_blank"> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 312400</a>
Unfortunatelly, there's no fix available at this time for bug 6312400, neither
in Solaris Express, nor in Solaris 10 u1.
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which is the only way to add the ITU driver.
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Unless this is changed between OpenSolaris / Solaris Express / Solaris Nevada and Solaris 10 Update 1, it is possible to add (one [*]) ITU driver
from an optical media.
Now all you have to do is figure out how to convert the ITU floppy to an
ITU CD-{R,RW}.
Have a look at the "build" script, function "make_itu_cd_image()"
contained here: <a href="http://www.tools.de/solaris/itu/" target="_blank">http://www.tools.de/solaris/itu/</a>
It builds an ITU CD ISO9660 image with RockRidge, using mkisofs.
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[*] <a href="http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6340822" target="_blank"> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 340822</a>
jkeil at 2007-7-5 17:13:15 >
