Solaris 10 Install problem on headless E250

I have tried a number of times to get the latest download to install on my headless E250 using the text installer. Most times it installs the 1st cd then reboots only to report that "the file just loaded does not appear to be executable". This is taking the default options, installing the full version, using autolayout on 2x9GB drives.

I've upgraded openboot to 3.30 I've tried installing it on different 18GB drives - I either get the same message, or the boot fails with a read-only filesystem error.

Anyone had similar problems that can point me in the right direction...

[614 byte] By [J-J] at [2007-11-26 0:45:46]

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# 1

Anytime i've seen that kind of error is when there is a problem with some settings in the PROM on the system.

If you do your STOP+A to get to the OK prompt.

Next to a 'printenv' a look to see what the values are for 'boot-device' and 'diag-device'. The values normally look something like 'disk' or 'disk net'. If you install the root partition on slice 0 then the value 'disk' is fine, if you install the root partition on slice 1 the the value 'disk:b' should be there.

It might be worth trying a 'set-defaults' which will reset the PROM back to it's default values, and try the install again.

Hope this is of some use

Mick.

adbvfab at 2007-7-5 19:41:07 >

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# 2

No problems here installing onto a headless e250. I'd be glad to compare prom settings, OBP rev., etc. if it'll help you.

bergman at 2007-7-5 19:41:07 >

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