Thanks Glenn... I thought I saw something about VMWare delaying the boot, but could not find that post again. I appreciate your clarifying that for me. Since performance is not an issue, I will boot into 32bit mode until VMWare decides to release the fix.
----- Original Message ---- From: Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Noel Milton Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 2:38:40 PM Subject: Re: [osol-help] Installer not giving option to Upgrade Solaris x86 * Noel Milton Vega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > After minor svcadm cleanup things seem to be working after the nv49 to nv82 > upgrade. All of the services came up. > > One thing to note, however, is that the initial SunOS banner does take about 5 > minutes to come up (the screen is blank before that). So that delays the boot > initialization. I'm not sure if this is related to VMWare; or some stale information > in the section of the drive that stores GRUB location information (which I plan > to update); or for that matter if the issue existed before the upgrade, because > it had been quite a while since I booted the nv49 based VM (so I forget). Yep, that's a known VMWare issue (for which they supposedly have a fix in-house but have been reluctant to ship for whatever reason). It's only an issue with 64-bit vm's. 32-bit vm's don't suffer from this 'pause'. Cheers, -- Glenn
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