Installing Solaris 10 x86?.
Hi Folks,
I am new to Solaris and have been trying to install a copy of Sol 10 x86 to VMware workstation 5.5. When I start the VM it boots the solaris dvd fine and
then the following happens....
Loading Stage 2.......
(The screen hangs at this for about 2-3 minutes)
Then I get the grub command prompt.
grub>
I presume I have to pass some commands to grub to install solaris though I really havent a clue. Any information or pointers would be much appreciated on this one. If I hit the tab key I get a list of grub commands though dunno which to use?.
Cheers in advance...
Barry.
# 1
> it boots the solaris dvd fine and
> then the following happens....
>
> Loading Stage 2.......
> (The screen hangs at this for about 2-3 minutes)
>
> Then I get the grub command prompt.
>
> grub>
>
> I presume I have to pass some commands to grub to
> install solaris though I really havent a clue.
No. What it means is that grub has loaded, but it wasn't able to mount the root filesystem and read the configuration file. Otherwise you'd have the grub boot menu at this point with several choices.
> Any
> information or pointers would be much appreciated on
> this one. If I hit the tab key I get a list of grub
> commands though dunno which to use?.
Something serious has happened. Unfortunately, I don't have any good techniques for how best to proceed at this point.
--
Darren
# 2
I also had problems installing Solaris 11/06 x86 on vmware 5.5.3. It would not boot from the ISO mounted image in VMWARE so I used a physical DVD. In the vmware settings I set the following options for the CDROM.
1. Use Physical Drive
2. Auto detect
3. Legacy emulation
My cdrom virtual device was IDE1:0
Hope this helps.
flup at 2007-7-7 12:23:06 >
# 3
Are you running VMWare on Windows or Linux?
Most likely your DVD ISO is corrupt, if on Windows did you concatenate the parts properly:
copy /B part_A+part_B+part_C+part-_D+part_E dvd-image.iso
and have you done an MD5 checksum of the resulting iso file.
To check I just booted sol_nv_b52_x86_dvd.iso (Solaris Express 12/06) in VMWare 5.5.3 without issue, VM set as follows:
custom config
Sun Solaris / 10 (experimental)
Format: Workstation 5
Processors: 1
Memory: 512MB
Bridged Networking
SCSI LSI Controller
CD-Rom: Use ISO, IDE 1:0
I do not myself run Solaris 10 under VMWare as I have not found it to be very stable.
Hope that of some help
Kenny.
