Just an update. Installing 2009.06 via AI behaves in exactly the same way as the Live CD install.
BTW: Installing via AI on Xeon hardware (IBM X3650) (using default manifests), with the DHCP DNS tweak, results in an apparently working system but no gdm console login on the monitor. Is this normal behaviour for default AI ? are we still missing something ? Did find some discussion on changing the grub menu.lst to graphic, doesn't make much sense since opensolaris with xvm boots in text mode in menu.lst but still launches gdm console login. Another question: Why does AI download over 1G of package data from the IPS repository only to install 250M ? > Hi, > > new here, so go gentle. Flush with the results > of configuring and installing > 009.06 on a couple of Xeon based machines ( apart > from > some tape drive recognition issues due to an > unsupported Adaptec scsi card > (on going)), thought we'd try and install on the > following hardware (was running vmware esxi server): > > supermicro h8sdr-8 (broadcom serverworks ht2000/1000 > chipset), > on board adaptec AIC7902 scsi > ATI RageXL 8MB on board Graphics > 8G ddr 400 sdram > 2x opteron 285 dual cores > > live cd boots, gets the grub menu, posts the sun > license bumf, outputs some log > stuff, finishing with > > syncing file systems done ... > > then abruptly reboots. > > text console mode behaves identically. > > we've tried burning another cd (same problem), > flashing to the latest bios (same problem). > > SCE snv_112 hangs at the Sun license stuff ... > > opensolaris 2008.05 bombs (didn't make a note of > which stage) > > Machine boots solaris 10 x86 flawlessly (apart from > an error message > about some missing microcode patch - the reasoning > behind flashing > the mb bios - went away after flash) (Generic > 127128-11 32bit if it helps) > > urprising all this, since some of the older sunfire > machines use similar > hardware i believe. > > Anyone ? Any ideas ? > > herisson -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
