On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Amit k. Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Amit k. Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Arun Tomar <tomar.arun at gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> hi! >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Amit k. Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> When I boot with the OpenSolaris 2008.11 Live CD, after "Preparing the >>>>> Live image for use" it blurbs out some PCI related warnings, the >>>>> installer moves into the maintenance mode, where I get a login prompt >>>>> and then gives me the root# shell. >>>>> >>>> >>>> r u using a usb cdrom ? >>>> >>>>> Happens both for Graphical and console login. >>>>> >>>>> Any idea what can I do to atleast know what is going wrong? >>> >>> @ Moinak, Arun >>> >>> I have tried it using more than one CD ROM / USB Disk. I am not using >>> a USB CDROM. >>> >>> I also tried disabling the USB and eSATA ports, No Luck. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >> >> One more check to rule out data corruption. Have you verified the MD5 >> checksum of the downloaded ISO image ? > > No. I am using one of the Sun shipped starter kits..But I have a ISO > lying around, I will "burn" into the USB stick and see what happens.. > > PS: I could boot Milax 0.3 on the same laptop... >
Does the starter kit mention 2008.11 ? You can still compare the checksum. These are the official checksums: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/indiana/osol-0811-hashes.txt The starter kit DVD can be bad. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/