> I'm new-new with OpenSolaris 2008.05 on x86, but
> looking to (finally) shift from Win to Unix servers.
> I have a Unix-Sun upbringing. I've Gparted a 10Gb
> partition on a near-new Dell gx630, set it to
> linux-swap, and when I use the OpenSolaris/get CD, it
> fails (several times, several newly cut CD's).
> Here're the last 4 lines of the log:
> [Multiboot-kludge, loadaddr=0xbffe38, text-and-data=0x1786e8, bss=0x0,
> entry=0xc00000]
> '/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix' is loaded
> module /boot/x86.microroot
> Error 25: Disk Read Error
> Why can't I fully install OpenSolaris on this brand
> new partition?
Hmm, this is a problem with reading from the installation media.
Apparently you already tried to re-burn a different CD media.
It's interesting that GRUB is able to load some of the files;
that is, the grub menu.lst file was read ok, and it was able to
read the /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix file. But the big
/boot/x86.microroot file refuses to load.
What kind of optical device are you using? Is that a P-ATA
optical device? Or S-ATA? Or USB?
Did you try one of your opensolaris 2008.05 CDs in a different
computer? Maybe the CD image that you downloaded is
somehow corrupted?
MD5 checksum for the opensolaris 2008.05 iso is:
% gmd5sum os200805.iso
1ef56fc1d43c630c50e4636de14963eb os200805.iso
OTOH, I found this bug report:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1818
The user reported that he had to switch to a different brand of
CD media to get the system booted from the opensolaris installation
CD.
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