Solaris 2.6 for x86 installation

Solaris 2.6 for x86 installation

Post by George Chun » Thu, 08 Apr 1999 04:00:00



I have a question on installation of Solaris 2.6 for x86.

I have used the latest installation disk to boot my machine. After I press
F2 in device configuration asistant screen, the system seems to stall. The
screen only displays "Enumerating buses.....".

I have followed the FAQ to diable internal cache, external cache, video ROM
uncachable, blah blah blah, but it still fails. And I have tried different
combination of bios setup, but it fails.

My system configuration is as follows.
K6-2 300 running in 100Mhz of external clock, 128M SDRAM running in 66Mhz,
2themax 51MVP3C-M mother board, seagate 6.4G IDE HD + CDROM, IBM 10G HD +
zip drive, PCI sound card, internal K56 modem, AT case.

Anyone has the problem like mine? How do you solve it? Thanks.

George

 
 
 

Solaris 2.6 for x86 installation

Post by Suresh Rajagopala » Fri, 09 Apr 1999 04:00:00


Try taking out the sound card and the zip drive first.

> I have a question on installation of Solaris 2.6 for x86.

> I have used the latest installation disk to boot my machine. After I press
> F2 in device configuration asistant screen, the system seems to stall. The
> screen only displays "Enumerating buses.....".

> I have followed the FAQ to diable internal cache, external cache, video ROM
> uncachable, blah blah blah, but it still fails. And I have tried different
> combination of bios setup, but it fails.

> My system configuration is as follows.
> K6-2 300 running in 100Mhz of external clock, 128M SDRAM running in 66Mhz,
> 2themax 51MVP3C-M mother board, seagate 6.4G IDE HD + CDROM, IBM 10G HD +
> zip drive, PCI sound card, internal K56 modem, AT case.

> Anyone has the problem like mine? How do you solve it? Thanks.

> George


 
 
 

Solaris 2.6 for x86 installation

Post by Suresh Rajagopala » Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:00:00


Try taking out the sound card and the zip drive first.

> I have a question on installation of Solaris 2.6 for x86.

> I have used the latest installation disk to boot my machine. After I press
> F2 in device configuration asistant screen, the system seems to stall. The
> screen only displays "Enumerating buses.....".

> I have followed the FAQ to diable internal cache, external cache, video ROM
> uncachable, blah blah blah, but it still fails. And I have tried different
> combination of bios setup, but it fails.

> My system configuration is as follows.
> K6-2 300 running in 100Mhz of external clock, 128M SDRAM running in 66Mhz,
> 2themax 51MVP3C-M mother board, seagate 6.4G IDE HD + CDROM, IBM 10G HD +
> zip drive, PCI sound card, internal K56 modem, AT case.

> Anyone has the problem like mine? How do you solve it? Thanks.

> George

 
 
 

1. can't read Solaris 2.6 x86 hard disk on Solaris 2.6 Ultra-1 ?!?

I was going to use this hard drive to move large files from my
Ultra to my Pentium PC for CD-R backup, but upon "boot -r" on
the Ultra I saw an error about "invalid geometry" on sd3, the
drive I had formatted on my PC to be ufs.  And now of course
I can't even "prtvtoc" this disk ("Unable to read Disk geometry"),
so mounting it is seemingly out of the question.

What's the problem?  Was I naive to assume the a ufs on a Solaris
system would be the same regardless of CPU type?  I really don't
want to use Ethernet to transmit potentially gigabytes of data
on a regular basis :-(...

Please reply via email (and post here, of course), as I don't
get a chance to keep up with the newsgroup as regularly as I
would wish.  Thanks.

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Mark J. Kaufman             Sun Microsystems, San Diego

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