I though I might just have a quick look at Open Solaris as I haven't touched it for about a year and a wee bit, so I trashed one of the Linux partitions of a working dual boot machine and freed up 20GB of space to have a play.
I downloaded the Open Solaris ISO and burnt it onto a CD NOT a DVD, boot the little machine and it gets as far as Boot CD-ROM: CD-ROM/NON-EMULATION BOOTING Loading Stage2.. And dies. So GRUB is stopping. Going for a wander somewhere and never coming back. I recall regular Solaris had the same problem a few years back with non-IDE drives, the built CD-ROM not having enough drivers to start the machine. I GOOGLED this obviously for a few hours today and note that a few people who are trying Open Solaris are having the same or similar problems. I thought I'd ask if anyone has come up with a solution before I start writing swags of trace (or just go back to Linux ;-). The little beast is an ACER portable Aspire 9500 INTEL Celeron M 370 1.5 GHz 2 GB RAM Windows XP SP3 on one patition of a 60 GB HDD The CD is a MATSSHITA UJ-845D The controllers are INTEL 82801 FB/FMB ULTRA ATA Storage 2 G6F with a primary IDE and a secondary IDE channel. I just downloaded the auto installer ISO. I'll give that a go on the same box and let ya know if it does the same thing. Any ideas appreciated. As this is just a quick play I don't want to put a 100 hours into this box! Cheers, Mark. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
