Bryan and Kim and Glenn: There is an issue with recognizing the CD/DVD drive in snv_72 and it will be fixed in snv_74.
6600169 - CD/DVD Drive not detected in B72 Bryan Allen wrote: > On Sep 20, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > >> Hi Kim, >> >> * Kim Culhan (sun at kim.net) wrote: >>> Installing on a Supermicro PDSME+ motherboard which has worked for >>> b68 >>> >>> On the console: >>> >>> Reading ZFS config: done. >>> ERROR: Cannot find install software, Exiting to shell >>> >>> The previous installation had a zfs filesystem on a different >>> controller >>> which has been removed from the system. >>> >>> Any help here is greatly appreciated > > I ran into this yesterday doing a SXCEb72 CD install. The drive was > either flakey or weird in some way Solaris didn't care for. See if > your install media is still accessible after you get dumped to a shell? > > Some research also suggested that it may occur with certain > (unsupported-ish?) SATA controllers: > > * http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5191025&tstart=105 > -- > bda > cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. > http://bda.mirrorshades.net/ > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
