Hello, I am trying to get 11/06 up and running on a brand new Dell Inspiron 530. I know this forum is for open Solaris, but I want a machine that is as close as the servers we have at work so I can practice my Sys. Admin skills....and so far I haven't received any help on Sun's forum.
First, a little background. To install 11/06 (dual-boot w/xp) I followed the example here: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5137822 , but I chose not to get rid of Dell's Diagnostic Partition & System Recovery Partition, since I'm not sure if its really required and also wanted to preserve my PC's OEM XP env. I also used a different method to create a 20Gb linux-swap partition. (http://frsun.downloads.edgesuite.net/sun/07C00892/index.html) During install, I had to add the following kernel option: "acpi-user-options=8". Now, after the grub menu and selecting 'Solaris', it takes about 3 minutes to get to a command line. I get a few errors at that time, such as: "file in / differ from the boot archive: /etc/path_to_inst" "cannot find /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache: no such file" I noticed I cannot modify any files since the system is in maintanence mode and is read-only. I tried running 'svcadm clear system/boot-archive' to clear those errors, and it seems to attempt to go into X windows/CDE, but I just get unintelligible multi-colored display, and need to power off. Seems odd since the hardware compatibility test doesn't show a problem with the onboard video. Running the Hardware compatibility test came up with the following 3 errors: No Solaris Driver Communication Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem No Solaris Driver Network Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection No Solaris Driver Multimedia Intel Corporation HD Audio Controller Can I just disable the Modem and the HD audio in the windows device manager to get around these? For the network card driver there is a Sun doc that says the workaround is to run: update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,1064"' iprb The problem with this is, I get "read-only file system" when I run this command or try to edit any file for that matter. Seems I'm stuck in maintenance mode? I can list the output svcs -xv if that would help. I've already tried a reinstall of 11/06 over again and get the same results. Thanks for any input, Mark This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
