[ale] Semi-ReSolved: OT: x86 Solaris-10 installed but not bootable

[John Mills]

Mike, ALErs -

Thanks for the note. So far my experiment played out like yours.

After continuing headaches getting Solaris-10 to format one of the SCSI 
disks correctly and persistent failures of the installer to create a 
usable boot, I tried Ubuntu-8.04(LTS) Server. Dropped in "like grass 
through a goose." (No steeenkiing GUI on _this_ box! 8-)

My objectives were:
  1. Bring old 1U server (and its two 9.1 GBy SCSI drives) back from the 
trash bin: accomplished at $35 expense for 2 GB RAM and some "magic words" 
(&*^%$#%#@!!!).
  2. Install and learn to run Solaris-10 a bit: failed, but I may revisit 
this.
  3. Think of some services for the box to offer to justify (1) and (2): 
Pending, but on ubuntu-server instead of Solaris-10.

My problems could have come from several sources: bad hardware; bad 
discovery and/or handling of hardware by Solaris; unfortunate system 
configuration; and (most certainly!) cockpit errors, ignorance, and 
confusion.

Cheers and thanks again.

  - Mills

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Mike Harrison wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, John Mills wrote:

>> I'm going through the 'Newbie' steps with x86 Solaris-10 (Sun's 05/08
>> release), with the usual number of bruises. Not strictly Linux, so please

> I gave up, The darn thing wouldn't see my intel ethernet card on an intel
> motherboard.. as I started to look into adding the things I needed,
> it looked more and more like a Debian/Ubuntu box without the well oiled
> and polished integration I have gotten used to.

> Something about having to run "Java Desktop"
> on a server install creeps me out.