Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-28 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:36 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Hi Alex, Sorry for forking the question, but have you recently had any success in booting Milax 0.5 from its vdi image? I keep getting the WARNING: init(1M) exited on fatal signal 9, restarting automatically message? Updating

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-27 Thread Alexander Eremin
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:36 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Hi Alex, Sorry for forking the question, but have you recently had any success in booting Milax 0.5 from its vdi image? I keep getting the WARNING: init(1M) exited on fatal signal 9, restarting automatically message? Updating

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-26 Thread Cia Watson
I haven't tried USB boot on that laptop -- it does have 1 USB 1.1 port, it's an IBM thinkpad 600x. I don't own any usb / thumb drives and haven't taken the time to figure out how to do a usb boot (if it's even possible). Sorry. However, on the livecd the error message it gives after module

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-26 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Hi Alex, Sorry for forking the question, but have you recently had any success in booting Milax 0.5 from its vdi image? I keep getting the WARNING: init(1M) exited on fatal signal 9, restarting automatically message? Updating Oracle VirtualBox to the 3.2.6 did not help. No problem booting

[osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
Anyone tried the latest Milax ISO on an old machine with 256M of memory? I just tried that as an experiment and regardless if I choose text console or regular boot it fails with can not start console login services and then the usual blurb about check svcs -xv. Of course if I do login in

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Cia Watson
As a matter of fact (or coincidence?) I do have a laptop with 256mb of ram and tried to boot Milax 0.5 just last weekend. It wouldn't boot due to some issue with compression or uncompressing files. I think I tried it with the vesa driver also, same error message. It's currently running

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
As a matter of fact (or coincidence?) I do have a laptop with 256mb of ram and tried to boot Milax 0.5 just last weekend. It wouldn't boot due to some issue with compression or uncompressing files. I think I tried it with the vesa driver also, same error message. It's currently running

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Alexander Eremin
Could you please write what's the messages on console before console-service error, I'll try to investigate this (I haven't problems with 0.5 in VBox with 256MB RAM). Thanks for this, Alex -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Alexander Eremin
Also, if this old box has USB port, could you test USB-boot? Thanks, Alex -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
As a matter of fact (or coincidence?) I do have a laptop with 256mb of ram and tried to boot Milax 0.5 just last weekend. It wouldn't boot due to some issue with compression or uncompressing files. I think I tried it with the vesa driver also, same error message. It's currently

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
snip This thread has only academic interest nowadays. Hardware is cheap you time is not. Well experimentation for the sake of testing small embedded solutions is hardly a waste of my time. Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread ken mays
is under 256 MB. Still enough for today's embedded Y2K purposes. I think the engineering quote was 384 MB RAM minimum (512MB roughly). ~ Ken Mays --- On Fri, 6/25/10, Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org wrote: From: Dennis Clarke dcla...@blastwave.org Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot

Re: [osol-discuss] Milax 0.5 boot fails : login services can not start

2010-06-25 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
snip This thread has only academic interest nowadays. Hardware is cheap you time is not. Well experimentation for the sake of testing small embedded solutions is hardly a waste of my time. I didn't mean to imply this; I haven't been there yet, no idea where Solaris would be suitable