On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Scott Dickson wrote: > Previously, I have been able to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 on an X8420 > opteron blade. I use the console redirection and boot up the live CD (system > does not support USB boot or have a local DVD). This works like a champ with > 2009.06. > > I tried today to do the same thing with b125 and it falls back to the text > (serial) console and can't start X. Were there graphics devices removed from > X between b111 and b125 that would have been required to install on these > devices? > > Lacking the text installer yet, this makes it pretty tough to install here. > > Suggestions? My workaround was to install the old code and pkg image-update.
Lacking the text installer, another alternative would be the Bootable AI media: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+caiman/Bootable_AI_Image/bootable.ai.spec.txt I can provide media if you'd like to try (available internally only until the project integrates). Alok
