Unexpected token WARNING message during Solaris 10 install
Hi I'm having some issues trying to install Solaris 10 on an Ultra 10 workstation.
The same cd works fine in an Ultra 450 enterprise server.
I get a lot of repeating errors like:
Unexpected token ' ' on line 1 of /kernel/drv/rpcib.conf
I tried doing a 'boot cdrom - text' from the ok prompt, but I got this:
short read 0x0 chars read
disk read error
If I just let this Ultra 10 boot into Solaris 5.6, I can browse the cd without problems.
I do see that this Ultra 10 only has a 4.3GB hard drive. But it does have 512MB of memory and it's a 300MHz machine.
If the hard drive isn't large enough would that cause the installation to not even begin, giving me some of these errors I listed above?
thanks,
Kevin
[786 byte] By [
kkhensona] at [2007-11-27 7:50:27]
# 2
Troubleshooting 101
Replace the IDE optical drive in the Ultra-10,
even if that means temporarily "stealing" one from a PC.
If you successfully install the new OS then you've proven
that your ten-year-old original drive is the fault of the read errors.
If the errors persist, then the issue is with the media
(readable enough for a directory structure but not readable enough to have valid data).
--
Yes this has been discussed before in these forums.
In the Hardware Forums, not the OS forums.
... and about three years ago.
# 3
Thanks for the response. Not being a hardware person, I had assumed if I could list and even read the text files on the cd, that the cdrom must be functioning correctly.
I'll try to come up with a different IDE drive and see if that works. I know the media is good because I installed with it on an Ultra 60 workstation and an Ultra 450 server last week.
I know I have a spare DVD-r drive, but I'm not sure if the Ultra 10 would recognize it, as I'm not sure what level of "firmware" is on it.
# 5
I finally got some time to put in a slightly newer DVDR drive into the Ultra 10. To my surprise and others, it was treated as a DVD drive and the Solaris 10 install DVD worked like a charm.
I managed to get the Ultra 10 up and going (along with an additional hard drive), so my collection of nearly 10 year old Sun boxes is complete: the Ultra 10, Ultra 60 and Ultra 450 Enterprise server.
Not sure I can teach anyone, as all I did was try it. I'm slowly learning how to monkey around with things on the systems. I'd have to say the DHCP is the biggest pita I've come across though, that and getting used to the Sun keyboard.
