2008/12/28 Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net>: > Someone at another list had mentioned something about the fact that some > DVD/CD burners may have some odd low-level blocking to sector that osol > can't read. The problem with that theory is that at the point of failure, I > think it is still under control of the code in GRUB which is also used in as > a Linux boot loader. Unless if SUN and the osol community is massaging the > code for GRUB, it shouldn't matter. But on the other hand since I can boot > the CD or image file in a Virtualbox VM, there Virtualbox translates the > physical CD/DVD-ROM into a very generic one along with a customized PCI Bus > that appears very generic to the software. My physical DVD-ROM & DVD-RAM are > both on the Primary Channel on a 2-channel PCI/IDE option card, while my 2 > PATA IDE HDDs are on the onboard IDE single channel bus. > > I'm thinking of temporarily changing that by splitting the opticals with the > HDDs. Mixing an HDD with an optical on each separate IDE bus. Or I could just > take the drive that I want to use for osol along with the DVD-ROM on the > onboard and remove the other drives. If it installs than I'll see what > happens when I put it all back to the original config. I'll post the results > when and if I do it.
I think you are on the right track. There is limited CDROM support beyond straight ide in the Solaris boot loader. Putting the cdrom on as the first secondary ide device would most likely work. -- Tony Reeves Christchurch New Zealand
