On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Amit k. Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> >> wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Just verified. Positive. >> >> Anything else I could do? >> > > When you get to maintenance mode login with user: jack passwd: jack > Then type: > cat /etc/svc/volatile/system-filesystem-root:live-media.log > > What messages do you see ?
It reports some- "Cannot read messages...". So, its obviously a problem with the media. I will try it with another, and see what happens. Thank You. -Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://amitksaha.blogspot.com http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ *Bangalore Open Java Users Group*:http:www.bojug.in "Recursion is the basic iteration mechanism in Scheme" --- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TailRecursion
