Hi all! I have a brand new HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server. It contains 6 internal hard drives. RAID 5 is configured on these drives using built-in HP Smart Array P400i controller. I've just installed Solaris 10 8/07 on this server. Solaris requires a driver for P400i controller. I'm using Driver Update CD created from HP provided ISO image. Solaris 10 is officially supported OS for DL360 G5 server.
Installation proceeds as expected: 1) At the begining of Solaris installation, Driver Update is used to load HP driver for raid controller. During installation, disk is recognized as c1d0t0 (the only disk in system); one partition is created on this disk. 2) Disk is devided to 6 slices: c1d0t0s0 - swap, 4GB c1d0t0s1 - /, cca 32GB c1d0t0s[3,4,5,6] - /zones/[a,b,c,d] - each cca 160GB 3) At the end of installation, CPQary3 driver is installed to target system without any errors reported. No errors are reported during installation at all. After reboot, GRUB is started. It shows boot menu containing two options: - Solaris 'normal' boot - failsafe boot PROBLEM: Selecting 'normal' boot leads to immediate system restart. According to documentation, this case occurs when PCQary3 driver is not installed. I'm able to boot using 'failsafe' option in grub. After entering single user, I load PCQary3 driver to runtime using 'install-du' command. I'm also able to find instaled Solaris using 'install-recovery' and mount its root volume to /a directory. Necessary driver IS installed inside /a/kernel/drv/ directory. Options 'bootpath' in /a/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc file is set up correctly pointing to device associated with /dev/dsk/c1d0t0s1 device. I tried (without success): 1) Use RAID 1+0 instead of RAID5 2) Create only 3,5GB partition instead of 700GB large one. 3) Place / on c1d0t0s0 instead of c1d0t0s1. 4) Re-create boot archive using 'bootadm update-archive -R /a' So, everything seems to be installed correctly, but system cannot boot. Do you have any ideas how to fix this problem? Jozef _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
