Error Installing Solaris 8

When installing Solaris 8 (Intel), it gets through the hardware detect stage, then it repeats the following line over and over:
atapi protocol error: 0x170 0x4 0x1
The PC spec is:
Celeron 400Mhz
128Mb RAM
CDRW Drive
5Gb Seagate Hard Disk
Any ideas?

I've seen something similar to that, but I don't know if this is the exact solution. Some versions of Solaris are not tolerant of having UDMA turned on with certain chipsets.
1. Upgrade your motherboard to the latest BIOS if you have not done so already.
2. After updating, go into the BIOS and disable UDMA access. Yes, this might slow down drive access, but it's better than not getting Solaris installed at all!
3. Try the install again.
If that doesn't work, you might want to try replacing your CD-ROM drive with a newer version and/or writing the installation CDs again but at a slower burn speed.

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I'm trying to get one of my friends interested in Solaris by having him install it on his system.
He's getting the following message though:
WARNING: failed to program IO space [0/7/21] BAR@0x20 length 0x20
Here are his system specs:
AOpen M21B
Dual Pentium3 500 MHz slot1
256 MB ECC Registered PC100
Lite-On 16x DVD-RW
Western Digital 40 GB
Can anybody help me help him?
Thanks.

I've seen something similar to that, but I don't know if this is the exact solution. Some versions of Solaris are not tolerant of having UDMA turned on with certain chipsets.
1. Upgrade your motherboard to the latest BIOS if you have not done so already.
2. After updating, go into the BIOS and disable UDMA access. Yes, this might slow down drive access, but it's better than not getting Solaris installed at all!
3. Try the install again.
If that doesn't work, you might want to try replacing your CD-ROM drive with a newer version and/or writing the installation CDs again but at a slower burn speed.

Error after Installing Solaris

Hi Admins
I am getting the following problem after the installation of Solaris 10 on a sunfire v440.Can someone please help me out.I am not sure about the cause of the error output because i am still a junior solaris admin.
Please help me fix this problem.Any Ideas are welcome.
============================================================
Sun Fire V440, No Keyboard
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.17.2, 8192 MB memory installed, Serial #63181061.
Ethernet address 0:3:ba:c4:11:5, Host ID: 83c41105.
Boot device: disk File and args:
WARNING: cannot open system file: etc/system
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118833-33 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss
Error -256
Evaluating:
Tried to access instance-specific data with no current instance
ERROR: Last Trap: Fast Instruction Access MMU Miss
Evaluating:
Error -256
Stack Underflow
========================================================
Thanks in advance

I have same problem at before. And I can using same hardware for install windows XP.
After, I try to using very good quality DVDROM, very quality and clearly CD install solaris 10. The problem would sometime happen.
I feel the CD have little dirty, you may not install solaris.

Error while installing Solaris 10 using Solaris CD

I'm getting an error while installing Solaris 10 in an Ultra 10 box.
I have Solaris CDs (Total 4) and I have installed Solaris 10 in a Ultra 250 box , I did not get any problem. That means CDs are fine.
But when I try to boot the CD 1 from bootPROM mode by giving the following command
ok boot cdrom
I get the following error :
rebooting with CD command boot cdrom
boot device : /pci@1f, 0/pci@1 , 1/idi@3/cdrom@2 ,0:f file and args
Cant read disk label
Cant open disk label package
evaluating : boot cdrom
Cant open boot device
Then the box boots up with Solaris 8 which it has now..
Can anyone please help me to solve this issue ?
Thanks

With the above information , I just wanted to tell you that the CD rom is getting detected as i can view all files in the CD.,,

No disk found error while install Solaris 8 intel on Compaq

I use the interactive installation method to install Solaris 8 02/02 intel platform on Compaq DL380 G2 with 4*36.4 GB harddrive and 2G memory. After I configue the network and time, an error message comes up: "No disk found. Check to make sure disks are cabled and powered up."
When I try the Web Start, it will jump the the shell prompt and say something like "No location for installation software ...."
Could anyone give me some clue? Thanks.

Dir Mr. zhechang,
We had the same error with you, but we install Solaris 9 on the DL380 G3 Compaq machine. Could you please help me to solve the errors if uou the solution about it
Thanks and best regards,
Nhut Pham

Error installing SOA in Solaris 10 x86 VM

I am trying to install SOA 11.1.1.2.0 on Solaris 10 x86 VM machine. When the runInstaller is invoked from Disk1, i get the following error and the installer quits. Any clues?
-bash-3.00$ ./runInstaller
./runInstaller: /export/home/oracle/ofm_soa_generic_11/Disk1/install/solaris/runInstaller: cannot execute
./runInstaller: syntax error at line 299: `count1=$' unexpected

Can you try with jreLoc parameter -
./runInstaller -jreLoc <path of JRE 1.6>
You may refer -
SOA Suite Installation
Regards,
Anuj

Error in solaris 10 installing 6.3 DS

hi
i get an error when starting cacao
Error: Exception thrown by the agent : java.net.MalformedURLException: Local host name unknown: java.net.UnknownHostException: unknown: unknown
i see tomcat running good
when i ask for dscc i get above error ,seems java error think so, but i install java before as of installing solaris 10 OS,is there any solution for this issue.

update your /etc/hosts file with your servers ip address.

Error installing KDE in Solaris 9!

Hello All:
I got anerror trying to install KDE in solaris 9 using this command:
pkg-get -i kde_gcc
It stars to install via internet, everything is ok, when it reach the koffice_addons packet, it says:
Analysing special files...
1109 blocks
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
-bad format in datastream table-of-contents
pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from </var/pkg-get/downloads/koffice_addons-1.3-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz>
ERROR: could not add CSWkofficeaddons.
ERROR: install of CSWkofficeaddons failed
ERROR: could not install required dependancies for CSWkdegcc
Could it be a packet error? I tried downloading the packet in different urls and it says always the same, error, I also tried to install the packet by myself with pkgadd but it gives me the same error, can you help me with this???
Thank you all!

Can you try with jreLoc parameter -
./runInstaller -jreLoc <path of JRE 1.6>
You may refer -
SOA Suite Installation
Regards,
Anuj

Getting an error 'Cannot open Boot device' while trying to install Solaris

Hi,
We were trying to install Solaris * on a Sun Sparc system and the CD rom drive does not seem to get recognised. When we try booting from cd rom we get an error 'Cannot open boot device' .
This server was up & running and we were trying to remove a hard disk that had failed and modified the vfstab script . After that the system failed to even boot up. So when we tried reinstalling the OS we are running into this problem.
Am new to this technology ...And any help would be greatly appreciated. .....
Thanks

Cdrom drive must be scsi device 6
I assume you are running < boot cdrom> at the ok prompt
also at the ok prompt run the command <probe-scsi> (without the angled brackets) you need to see the following:
Target 6
Unit 0 Removable read only device TOSHIBA XM.......bigpileofnumbers
If not, check the cdrom drive and the cdrom inside
hope this helps
Alan

Error 28 when installing Solaris

I'm installing Solaris through a CD. I get it to boot, then I get the GRUB menu. There, I see three options:
1. Solaris
2. Solaris ttya
3. Solaris ttya( SFV60x and SFV65x )
I try the Solaris, an error just like this pops up:
Booting 'Solaris'
kernel /boot/multiroot kernel/unix -B install_media=cdrom
[Multiboot-elf, <0x1000000:0x14b9b:0x393b5>, shtab=0x104e208, entry=0x1000000]
modile /boot/x86.miniroot
Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
I believe I have sufficient memory. When I boot up, it says I have ~320 MB RAM. I tried researching this error on the internet, and it's been asked a couple of times before. But none of them actually came up with a conclusion. I found links to these two bug reports, but I don't know how to interpret them in any way:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6411177
and
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6387379
Does anyone know how this problem could be solved? Thanks.

After a week of working, day-in day-out on attempting to install sun Solaris 10, on 3 different pc�s and struggling with error 28 � �the cannot fit into memory� I can suggest a fix to the madness. Get a Pentium 4 pc and the installation works.
Solaris 10 does not install on Pentium III even with 256 or more memory � ex Gateway Pentium 3 pc is not working. It needs a higher processor. That�s just how the cookie crumbles�.
I had no problem installing on Pentium 4 with 256 memory and the installation did even better on another Pentium 4 with 512 memory.
The minimums suggested are too low.

10g installation error on Solaris 10 X86

Dear All,
i have downloded a 10g( solaris x86) from oracle site to install Solaris 10 x86..
After following installation document steps when i execute command ./runinsta follwing error occurs.
**********************************output**************************
$ ./runinsta
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking installer requirements...
Checking operating system version: must be 5.10. Actual 5.10
Passed
Checking Temp space: must be greater than 250 MB. Actual 1555 MB Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB. Actual 1715 MB Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors. Actual 16777216 Passed
All installer requirements met.
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2010-03-31_08-38-33PM. Please wait ...unzip: cannot find ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.4.2.0.0/1/DataFiles/*.jar, ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.4.2.0.0/1/DataFiles/*.jar.zip or ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.4.2.0.0/1/DataFiles/*.jar.ZIP.
Error in writing to directory /tmp/OraInstall2010-03-31_08-38-33PM. Please ensure that this directory is writable and has atleast 69 MB of disk space. Installation cannot continue.
: Error 0
$
but there is sufficient space for /tmp.
Please suggest how to resolve issue.
Thanks.
Rajesh.
Edited by: user12071799 on Apr 2, 2010 6:15 AM

Hi,
$ ls
actions oracle13.bak oracle26.bak oracle39.bak oracle_6.bak oracle_s.18 oracle_s.pro
componen oracle14.bak oracle27.bak oracle40.bak oracle_7.bak oracle_s.19 oracle_s.xml
config.xml oracle15.bak oracle28.bak oracle41.bak oracle_8.bak oracle_s.2 ouiconfi.xml
dialogs oracle16.bak oracle29.bak oracle42.bak oracle_9.bak oracle_s.20 prereq
fastcopy oracle17.bak oracle30.bak oracle43.bak oracle_s.1 oracle_s.21 products.xml
fastcopy.xml oracle18.bak oracle31.bak oracle44.bak oracle_s.10 oracle_s.3 properti
install1.jar oracle19.bak oracle32.bak oracle45.bak oracle_s.11 oracle_s.4 queries
install2.jar oracle20.bak oracle33.bak oracle46.bak oracle_s.12 oracle_s.5 shiphome.pro
invdetai.pro oracle21.bak oracle34.bak oracle_2.bak oracle_s.13 oracle_s.6 shiphome.xml
libs.xml oracle22.bak oracle35.bak oracle_2.pro oracle_s.14 oracle_s.7
oracle10.bak oracle23.bak oracle36.bak oracle_3.bak oracle_s.15 oracle_s.8
oracle11.bak oracle24.bak oracle37.bak oracle_4.bak oracle_s.16 oracle_s.9
oracle12.bak oracle25.bak oracle38.bak oracle_5.bak oracle_s.17 oracle_s.bak
$ pwd
/database/stage
$
there is no directory with name Components.But on directory is present with name componen.
pwd
/database/stage
# ls -l
total 9332
dr-xr-xr-x 23 oracle oinstall 512 Apr 1 22:08 actions
dr-xr-xr-x 116 oracle oinstall 2560 Apr 1 22:12 componen
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 3344 Apr 1 22:12 config.xml
dr-xr-xr-x 7 oracle oinstall 512 Apr 1 22:13 dialogs
dr-xr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Apr 1 22:13 fastcopy
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 1581 Apr 1 22:13 fastcopy.xml
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 3097662 Apr 1 22:13 install1.jar
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 595911 Apr 1 22:13 install2.jar
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 198 Apr 1 22:13 invdetai.pro
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 15430 Apr 1 22:13 libs.xml
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle10.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle11.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle12.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle13.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle14.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle15.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle16.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle17.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle18.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle19.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle20.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle21.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle22.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle23.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle24.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle25.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle26.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle27.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle28.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle29.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle30.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle31.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle32.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle33.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle34.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle35.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle36.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle37.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle38.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle39.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle40.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle41.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle42.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle43.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle44.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle45.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle46.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_2.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_2.pro
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_3.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_4.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_5.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_6.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_7.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_8.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_9.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.1
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.10
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.11
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.12
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.13
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.14
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.15
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.16
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.17
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.18
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.19
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.20
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.21
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.3
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.4
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.5
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.6
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.7
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.8
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.9
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 580 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.bak
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 656 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.pro
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 4869 Apr 1 22:13 oracle_s.xml
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 5237 Apr 1 22:13 ouiconfi.xml
dr-xr-xr-x 5 oracle oinstall 512 Apr 1 22:13 prereq
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 801088 Apr 1 22:13 products.xml
dr-xr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Apr 1 22:13 properti
dr-xr-xr-x 43 oracle oinstall 1024 Apr 1 22:13 queries
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 67 Apr 1 22:13 shiphome.pro
-r-xr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 237 Apr 1 22:13 shiphome.xml
i have kept SW at location /database.
Thanks.
Edited by: user12071799 on Apr 2, 2010 5:42 AM

Problems installing Solaris 8 2/04

I installed Solaris 8 2/04 in a Sun Fire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), the installation finished but when server restarted it displayed this:
"loadkeys: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
Killed
kbd: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
Killed
cfsfstype: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
WARNING: /proc could not be mounted
expr: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
/sbin/swapadd: swap: not found
WARNING - /usr/sbin/fsck not found. Most likely the
mount of /usr failed or the /usr filesystem is badly
damaged. The system is being halted. Either reinstall
the system or boot with the -b option in an attempt
to recover."
i tried with boot -b but it did not solve the problem, when i tried to start the server normally it could not, I can oly enter to server in maintenance mode, and the sysem could not found a lot of files (like /usr/sbin) and commands (like ls, boot, init).
I found at the start of the installation this display
"WARNING: /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8/sd@0,0 (sd0):
Error for Command: write(10) Error Level: Informational
Requested Block: 142093520 Error Block: 142093520
Vendor: COMPAQ Serial Number: 3KT2R4Y3
Sense Key: Soft Error
ASC: 0x5d (<vendor unique code 0x5d>), ASCQ: 0x10, FRU: 0x10"
i do not know if is a hard drive problem. Please help me because i tried three times the installation but the problem still exists

Since this is a fresh installation, you might consider starting it all over again.
You may have made some initial selections while prompted at the beginning of the install process, that accidentally omitted essential system files.
As for that device path and the disk? It's pointing to an external non-Sun peripheral that's connected to the rear external SCSI port. That drive has some bad sectors. ( I wouldn't trust a new OS on those sectors until you fixed them.)
The errors are not calling out either of the two possible internal drives.
Infodoc 21216 lists a few default system device paths, and ...Sun Fire [TM]v120 / Netra[TM] 120
PCI slot 0               /pci@1f,0/pci@1/<device>@1,*          33mhz-32bit-5V
disk 1                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@0,0
disk 2                       /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@1,0
External SCSI Port          /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8,1/<device>
CDROM                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@d/sd@0,0
Network 1               /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/<network>@c,1
Network 2               /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/<network>@5,1

Please help me! To Install solaris 8 on Intel plateform

Hi All,
During when I tried to install Solaris 8 on my machine I repetadely used to encountered following problem listed below.I have also checked my motherboard's chipset with Sun's Hardware Compatiability List, it is there.
My Machine: Intel PIII
Motherboard: Intel 820
Processor Speed : 600Mhz
Ram 128Mb
Operating system to be installed : Solaris 8
The problems:
1. During the boot time I used to see:
SUN-OS Intel Plateform edition Primary Boot system VCN 2.0
Warning: ACPI table not in reclaim memory.
2. When This window disappear I will have this window:
SUN-OS secondary Boot Version 3.0
Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting system
3. During when system is comming up I used to see after following error after when systems shows :
Warning: Can not merge HWconf devinfo Node Fdc@1,3f0
I have consulted so many sun's plublication to cope with this problems, but could not over come. Therefor, please advise me how could I handle this problems?
Sarad

I've come across the same error messages in the same
sequence and have been stumped about how to resolve
the problem. I'm hoping that someone will read and
have an answer to these error messages.
chris
Hi All,
During when I tried to install Solaris 8 on my machine
I repetadely used to encountered following problem
listed below.I have also checked my motherboard's
chipset with Sun's Hardware Compatiability List, it
is there.
My Machine: Intel PIII
Motherboard: Intel 820
Processor Speed : 600Mhz
Ram 128Mb
Operating system to be installed : Solaris 8
The problems:
1. During the boot time I used to see:
SUN-OS Intel Plateform edition Primary Boot system VCN
2.0
Warning: ACPI table not in reclaim memory.
2. When This window disappear I will have this
window:
SUN-OS secondary Boot Version 3.0
Solaris Intel Platform Edition Booting system
3. During when system is comming up I used to see
after following error after when systems shows :
Warning: Can not merge HWconf devinfo Node Fdc@1,3f0
I have consulted so many sun's plublication to cope
with this problems, but could not over come. Therefor,
please advise me how could I handle this problems?
Sarad

Strange problems after installing Solaris 10 u6 on 64-bit PC

Hi all,
I have run into some very strange issues after installing Solaris 10 update 6 on my 64-bit PC (it's almost new). The problems are with graphical applications and desktop environments based on GTK (so it seems, at least).
I have installed Solaris normally, following most of the default options and choosing the "Entire Group" software packages installation. However, after the first login I've seen that:
1. No user creation process was offered to me and I had to login as root (I find it pretty strange)
2. After logging in as root into JDK system, my screen went blank for a couple of seconds and then the system threw me back to the login screen.
3. Logging into the old CDE environment was possible, but launching Firefox from there (using a command line terminal) wasn't. It gave me the following error message:
ld.so.1: firefox-bin: fatal: libmlib.so.2: open failed: no such file or directory
ld.so.1: firefox-bin: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/bin/firefox/firefox-bin: symbol gtk_init: referenced symbol not found.
It's very strange because GTK toolkit and JDK environment are supposed to be the core functionalities provided by Solaris. Does anyone have an idea what's going on?
My system sum-up:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quand Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz
RAM: 2 Gb of DDR2 SDRAM
Motherboard: MSI MS-7529 (Intel G31 chipset)
Monitor: AOC LM725
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
Hard disk: 2 Western Digital HDs (SATA) 320 Gb each,
1 Western Digital external USB HD MyBook Essential 2, 500 Gb
DVD drives: 2 LG DVD drives (SATA)
Network card: Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
I use my system in the following way:
On the first hard disk, I have a one-partition 32-bit Windows XP SP3 installation (ported from my old computer).
On the second hard disk, I have a functioning Fedora Core 9 installed on the first half of the disk's space (the installation is self-organized into several Linux partitions, e. g. /boot, /swap etc; I am a newbie so I don't know too much about Linux partitioning - only specified to Fedora how much space it could use for its volume group). I installed Solaris onto the second half of the second disk.
It has be noted that my USB external drive seemed to conflict with the network or graphics cards during the Fedora installation and caused it to hang sporadically, so I installed Fedora with this disk detached. I also detached it when I was installing Solaris, though it seems to have not influenced the problems I experienced. I also have attempted installing Solaris before I did so with Fedora, but had the same issues.

Well, it seems that the cause of the problem was that my DVD image was just corrupted - I didn't check it vs MD5 codes supplied by Sun assuming it went automatically OK. I downloaded the image again (this time it was OK), reinstalled the system and successfully logged into JDS. However, I am still puzzled why Solaris doesn't offer to create a default non-root user during the installation process.

Installing Solaris as a guest OS on VirtualBox-1.6.0

I am using VirtualBox-1.6.0 as my VM on an AMD ATHLON 1800+ with 1GB RAM running Fedora 9 (uname -r = 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686). My first attempt to install Solaris was with Solaris10 11/06, while the second attempt was with Solaris10 05/08.
Solaris10 11/06: 1. Default screen resolution created a window too long with the bottom off screen.
Is there a recommended resolution when the host screen resolution is 1440x900?
2. Guest Additions failed to install properly
What is the appropriate method for installing the Guest Additions for Solaris?
Solaris10 05/08: 1. Install hangs when installing as a networked system at system 77% initialized prior to the actual install.
2. Install hangs when installing as a non-networked system when system is at 100% complete and about to reboot. I manually powered off the VM
unmounted the DVD image and then restarted the VM. When it rebooted, it complained that there wasn't a system on the hard drive.
In both installs, I went with the default config of the VM (512MB RAM, 8MB Video RAM, creating a dynamic virtual disk starting at 20GB limit), and the install media were iso's, 11/06 5 CD iso files and 05/08 1 DVD iso file.
TIA
Scott
Edited by: Bad2theBone on May 30, 2008 10:37 AM

Just redid the install of Solaris10 11/06 and this time I was able to change the size of the window so that it is within my desktop. I am running 32 bit apps as my AMD processor is only 32 bit, also I originally went with the CDE desktop and later switched to JDE. I was also able to install the Guest Additions for Solaris this time without any errors using pkgadd from the cli. I haven't retried the 05/08 version yet, but will post when I do. One thing in common with 11/06 and OpenSolaris.200805 is that the audio on my system does not work on either VM VBox 1.6.0. It reports that it cannot find any compatible device. It also complains about the UART device, although I don't have Serial Ports enabled. Also does anyone know how to tell VBoxSvr what host name to use with each VM?
Fri. 27 June 2008
I was able to install Solaris10u5 (05/2008) on VMware Server using 684MB of RAM and 20GB HDD. I did not have the tools addition for Solaris, I'm not even sure if there is such an animal, so I had to "Scroll the desktop" to maneuver around. I then tried it again on VirtualBox 1.6.2, got through the initial install setting RAM to 684MB, default Video no Serial ports or USB, although parts were painfully slow. I was not able to do the first reboot, it just sat there saying that it was doing system initialization and the indicator just kept on going back and forth. After about 20 min. I shutoff the VM giving up. Also I still can't get sound to work on either the older Solaris10 or OpenSolaris. In OpenSolaris the DDU indicates that 2 drivers are missing;
Audio; Intel 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller
Other; ACPI AC Device
Anyone know if and when VBox or OpenSolaris will have these drivers?
Edited by: Bad2theBone on Jun 27, 2008 8:45 PM

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