Hi all. I tried to install Solaris 10 , but it always fails.
After I selected "Solaris Interactive", it displayed "Use is subjects to license term", then the system reboot. Whatever I choose which option, it still leads to reboot.
My computer:
CPU: P4
Motherboard: asus P4P800 SE
Video Card: Geforce 5200
Hard disk: Sumsung SATA
Does anyone know anything about it?
Instead of typing a number to select the "Solaris interactive"
installation, type
b -kvs
(This loads the Solaris kernel from the boot device, "-k" starts the
kernel debugger, "-v" enables verbose kernel messages, and "-s"
selects single user mode).
Does it enter the kernel debugger with a panic? What error does
it report?
Thanks for the reply.
After using the "b -kvs" command, I can get to the debug mode. But I found some error messages in the output. It said like following:
mount: not a UFS magic number (0xfe468815)
Cannot mount root on /pci@0, 0/pci-ide@1f, 1/ide@1/sd@0, 0: a fstype ufs
panic[cpu0]...........
.......
Our hard disk has freedos intalled. Could the installation get confused by this?
No, the harddisk does not matter at that point. Solaris is trying
to bootstrap the system from the CDROM drive and should only
access the CDROM media.
The solaris bootstrap code has loaded the boot device drivers from
the UFS filesystem on the boot CD (using the system's BIOS), and is
now trying to use them to mount the UFS root filesystem (using
the Solaris boot device driver).
For some reason, Solaris' CDROM driver is unable to read the CD, or reads junk from the CD, it seems.
I don't think that the CD media is bad because you're able to load
the kernel debugger, the main kernel image and the IDE & SD
driver (using the PC's BIOS) from the UFS filesystem on the CD.
But accessing the same filesystem using Solaris device drivers
fails.
Maybe there's some issue with the Solaris CD or IDE driver and
your CDROM or DVDROM device? Do you have a different type
of CD/DVD drive available that you could install into the
machine for installation?
Thanks for the help!! Finally I can install it.
The problem is the CDROM. At the beginning I used a Aopen DVDRW, then I changed to a Philips CDRW. The problem is still the same. Then I changed to a Toshiba CDROM, it works very well.
Does it means we only can use a CDROM withou RW function to install Solaris 10?
After all, thank you very much for the suggestions!
> Does it means we only can use a CDROM withou RW
> function to install Solaris 10?
No, the explanation must be more complicated.
I have a system with an LG DVD-RW GMA-4020B (ATAPI DVD
writer), and I'm able to boot a Solaris x86 boot CD from the DVD
writer device just fine.
Is the Aopen and Philips RW device connected as an internal
ATAPI device? Or is that perhaps some USB / Firewire external
box? USB / Firewire devices are not supported as Solaris boot
devices.
If the Aopen or Philips RW device is an internal ATAPI device,
what happens when you change the Tohsiba CDROM back to
the Aopen or Philips RW device, after Solaris x86 is installed?
Are you able to mount a CDROM media with the installed
Solaris x86, using the Aopen or Philips RW device?
