[ale] Semi-ReSolved: OT: x86 Solaris-10 installed but notbootable

[Mills John M-NPHW64]

Asher -

Thanks for your note; I would appreciate any suggestions. Here's more than you wanted to know:

The hardware is (I think) a "Penguin Computing" 1U server fitted with a Tyan S2720 motherboard (I may have lied in an earlier post), two dual-core Xeon 1.80 GHz CPUs, 2 GBy RAM, on-board Adaptec aic7899 dual-SCSI, and two 9.10 GBy SCSI drives salvaged from an HP server of similar vintage. I'm using one of the two ethernet ports, an Intel e1000. There is also a conventional IDE interface pair with a [somewhat doubtful] CD-ROM as primary/master (originally for upgrades). The pieces were scrapped when we moved offices and I thought it looked like an interesting project-box. VGA basic but functional. One horizontal PCI slot, now unpopulated.

That's a lot more horsepower by my standards, but somewhat limited by the disks' size.

The BIOS recognizes a USB DVD/CD drive that I used for the installation, but _BOY_ is that sloowww! (I didn't use the on-board CDROM because of doubts about it. Next time ...)

Actually it would be nice to get another of the little yellow-handled disk caddies that I could cannibalize to hold a current-generation IDE hard-drive. Anyone know who made those or where I might come up with a sacrifical specimen? (Doesn't have to be designed for IDE -- I just want to use it as a mounting tray.)

Project suggestions also welcomed in case I recover some ambition (not too likely for a bit &8-P).

Regards.

 - Mills


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of Asher Vilensky
Sent: Tue 9/22/2009 5:08 PM
To: John Mills; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] Semi-ReSolved: OT: x86 Solaris-10 installed but notbootable
 
Mills,

May I ask what is the hardware you're trying to install on?

 I installed Solaris 10 x86 several times back in 2008.  If the HW was Sun,
no problems.  If it was HP (Proliant) there were some problems (which HP
provided guidance for).  Can't remember Dell and IBMs (Xseries), but I can
ask my friends.
-- Asher
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