Dell Latitude D620 Won't boot after install
I installed Solaris 10 via DVD on my D620. The install goes fine and completes successfully. When I try to boot for the first time, I just see a bunch of memory addresses on the screen only for like half a second. They just blink on the screen for a fraction of a second with no hope of even seeing (right after the SunOS trademark screen) and then it reboots. Constantly. I don't even get the change to see what the error message is.
I'm on the latest BIOS from Dell and the HCL on Sun's website says this configuration is fully supported. Does anyone have any ideas how I can either find out what the error message is or fix it so it boots?
Thanks,
# 1
The problem seems to be related with your hard drive, I think - D620 as far as I know has SATA drive. No matter if it's in HCL or not. Try to boot from this DVD and get into log files. Second: try to get other version of install DVD and at last reinstall the system. I had two versions of installation cds: the older one installed system fine, the newer - crashed (on the same machine).
Greetz,
# 2
Thanks for the tip. Yes it does have a SATA drive. I managed to get it working by editing the entry in GRUB:
Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u3wos_10 X86 - pressed 'E' to edit
kernel /plaform/i86pc/multiboot
added "kernel/unix" (w/o quotes) to the above line:
kernel /plaform/i86pc/multiboot kernel/unix
Don't ask me why or how I figured that out or most of all WHY it works . It will boot fine after editing that entry in grub.
# 3
Heh, ok, won't ask, after all if it works, it's another clue in problem resolving. It'll be helpful for the future to me.Greetz,
