I would think that if they are on an IDE card, built in or otherwise, that it would work... I'll be interested in the results. Have you tried with a different OE (Linux, Windows, etc)? I'm seeing the same thing but the CD/DVD drive is external USB. Both Windows and Fedora 9 (which uses GRUB) loaded perfectly off my external USB drive... OpenSolaris not so much as I get the grub prompt in the same manner as Scott. I assume from what you're stating this would be a limitation of OpenSolaris?
Tony Reeves wrote: > 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. >
