> I'm able to reproduce this kind of behaviour on an > ASUS M2N-SLI > mainboard when trying to boot from an external USB > DVD writer > device. In my case the Solaris GRUB optical boot > media is readable > just fine; It's the BIOS that starts reporting read > errors for reads from > the USB optical device, at the point when the > /boot/grub/menu.lst file > should be read. With a few hacks added to the GRUB > boot code I'm > able to work around that BIOS bug...
Jurgen, Have you tried feeding that code back into Sun as a contribution? I.e., I'm hitting the same problem right now. Not a corrupted disk, but an inablility to read from an external USB drive. Thanks, Tom This message posted from opensolaris.org
