??? - Install CD w/ custom /boot/solaris/devicedb/master ?

Howdy Friends:
Any suggestion on how I might go about creating a custom Solaris 10 install CD with a modified /boot/solaris/devicedb/master file? My IDE controller isn't recognized by Solaris 10, and I need to modify the master file to include the driver info (Sil 0680 IDE RAID) for installation.
I am aware I could just create an install floppy via DD, however this system does not have a floppy drive nor a working FDD controller. I also cannot boot via a USB floppy due to no support in the BIOS.
I've tried installing via a network install (PXE), but I never get past the "Solaris Network Boot..." screen.
Any help installing on this system would be awesome. I'm excited to use Solaris 10!
-- JWheeler
tpawiredboy*at*unequa-tsi.net

The process for creating a bootable Solaris x86 CD is quite a bit harder than it is on Sparc hardware. Or at least it was with the only process I know about. It is much simpler to perform a network-based installation.
One catch to the network install, however, is that a Sparc system cannot read all the partitions on the x86 Solaris CD. I had to put the disc into an existing Solaris x86 system, NFS mount a directory from my Sparc server, and perform a "./setup_install_server" from the x86 system to the NFS directory.
Once that was complete, I could use the Sparc server to jumpstart the x86 systems using custom configurations. It also allowed me to install the correct drivers for the x86 system in question that were not part of the Solaris CD (which is one of the problems you describe).
I realize that you were probably looking for a simpler answer that this...

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<div class="pre"><pre> ----------------------</pre></div>
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<div class="pre"><pre>
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They will have to fix bay2 for me as I can no longer detect any hard disk connected to that bay.

Top 15 or 20 mistakes I made installing Windows XP using Boot Camp/Leopard

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Because I created FAT32 partition using Boot Camp tool few days ago I installed my custom copy of Windows XP with SP3, IE7 and WMP10 integrated using nLite (for WMP10 integration use RVM Integrator). I did not use Boot Camp tool this time - I just booted CD using Option key. Then I installed Boot Camp 2.0 drivers you can find on Mac Disk 1. After this I installed Boot Camp drivers 2.1 update. In Add or remove Programs I checked drivers - I uninstalled old drivers which call identical, but you can skip this. Everything works fine BTW it is better to format your partition to NTFS - you have much less disk errors, you do not waste time for disk errors scans during Windows startup, your data are much more safe. If you need NTFS write permissions use great tool Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX or open source NTFS driver.
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Dual boot Solaris 8 and Windows XP

Hello. I currently have windows xp as my OS. I would like to install Solaris 8 as a secondary OS. I have a separate hard drive I would like to put Solaris on. My question is, will the solaris installation allow me to choose which drive to install solaris to? Also, how can I set up my system to boot windows if I do nothing, but boot solaris if I choose to? Thanks for any help, I'm new to solaris and to dual-booting.

Try this URL:
http://sun.pmbc.com/faq/9.html
Hope it helps.
Senthilkumar
Developer Technical Support
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://www.sun.com/developers/support

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HD 80GB
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Developer Technical Support
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http://www.sun.com/developer/support

Jumstart install from x86 to x86 Solaris 10

I already posted this to the solaris 10 list, but I when checking this
forum it thought it more appropriate. My apologies to those who are active on both forums.
My setup is:
install server OS: Solaris 10, i86pc .
The install server is also boot server using tftpboot.
The dhpc server is configured according to the instructions which are
given when adding an install client in Solaris 10.
The client can communicate with the install and boot server but fails
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cdm3 -> cdm2 ICMP Echo request (ID: 48130 Sequence number: 0)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Read "nbp.cdm2" (octet)
cdm3 -> cdm2 UDP D=2070 S=39122 LEN=22
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cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 0
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cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 1
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 2 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 2
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 3 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 3
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 4 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 4
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 5 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 5
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 6 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 6
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 7 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 7
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 8 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 8
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 9 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 9
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 10 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 10
cdm3 -> cdm2 TFTP Data block 11 (1456 bytes)
cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 11
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cdm2 -> cdm3 TFTP Ack block 12
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cdm2 -> BROADCAST DHCP/BOOTP DHCPDISCOVER
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cdm2 -> BROADCAST DHCP/BOOTP DHCPDISCOVER
cdm3 -> cdm2 ICMP Echo request (ID: 48130 Sequence number: 0)
cdm3 -> cdm2 DHCP/BOOTP DHCPOFFER
cdm2 -> BROADCAST DHCP/BOOTP DHCPDISCOVER
cdm3 -> cdm2 ICMP Echo request (ID: 48130 Sequence number: 0)
cdm3 -> cdm2 DHCP/BOOTP DHCPOFFER
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Any suggestions???
Lydia

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Custom boot diskette

I have a large number of identical Intel systems for which I want to create a custom boot diskette that launches a jumpstart install across the network. I've been searing for days now on how this might be possible, and although I've found a few messages from people who say they're doing it or who mention the possibility, I have not found any actual documentation on the subject.
Right now I'm going through the painful process of booting from CD and hitting F2 a lot until I get to the point of launching the jumpstart. This does not make me happy ;)
Does anybody know of some hidden documentation that the obvious keyword searches have missed?
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Do you mean the diskette with NC ? It is a few years ago, but when I
remember well, this message would appear when you reinstall NC. You are
ask for diskette with NC. When you have not this diskette, you must
select four location during installation - two are in answer from lain,
third is usualy c:\novell\client32 (for asked files *.nlm) and fourth
is c:\novell\client32\msg\english for asked files *.msg.
I suggest you run any file manager together with instalation and fill
path to asked files, which you found in file manager.
Jindrich Kovar
Iain McLaren napsal(a):
> Errrm....what's the exact message you're getting?
>
> You will need the Windows 98 install CD for some of the network components
> (unless they're already installed AND you know where they are (C:\Windows or
> C:\Windows\System usually))
>
> Iain
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:9VAne.1179$[email protected]..
>
>>When I try to install NC 3.4 on win98, a boot diskette (for NC )is
>>required. Can sb tell me where I can get that?
>>
>>So long
>
>
>

Dual boot Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 on a SCSI hard disk

Hi,
I would like to dual boot Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 on a SCSI hard disk. Currenlty that 16gb hard disk has Solaris 9 installed on it.
What are the steps needed to install Solaris 10 and dual boot them?
Thanks a million.
ldd

Unfortunately we can't help you as this forum is only for questions or problems relating to Sun Update Connection, Patch Manager 2.0, & PatchPro 2.2.
We recommend you post your question on one of the Solaris OS forums:
http://forum.sun.com/jive/category.jspa?categoryID=139

[SOLVED] Advice for Arch install with rEFInd dual boot Lenovo laptop?

I am trying to plan an Arch install on a new laptop for dual boot with Windows 8.1, but I know there is a potential to cause huge problems so I have been trying to read and learn about the hard disk partition structure and how I might install the rEFInd boot files so that I am still able to boot Windows once Arch is installed. (Unfortunately for some tasks such as updating the maps on my satnav box Windows is essential). However I am really quite unsure if I am doing the right thing in the way I am thinking about the Arch install so I would appreciate any help from experts on the forum.
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I have done all the initial ( safe!)changes necessary to move to the point at which I can execute the Arch install. From within Windows (switched off fastboot, and shrunk the "C:" drive to make space for linux partitions). I have also switched off Secure Boot from the BIOS, and made sure that Windows still boots up fine.
The current arch install iso (February 2014) boots under uefi just fine - and of course once booted I have access to the gdisk programme. That certainly showed the pre-existing partitions on the drive (8 partitions with partition number 2 being the EFI partition, and three recovery partitions!) with a GPT partition table, and it should therefore be possible to make the necessary new linux partitions in the now unallocated space on the disk that was freed up with the internal disk management facility within Windows 8.1. So at that point I created three partitions for a root partition (type 8300), a swap partition (type 8200) and another type 8300 partition which will become /opt in the installed Arch system.
In order to try and not make any changes to the partition structure I let the three new linux partitions be number 9, 10 and 11.
I am told that for a GPT disk it is a definite no-no to try to create more than one EFI partition. So I will need to use the existing EFI partition to place the rEFInd files and the kernel once I install Arch.
In this (Y510p) laptop the EFI partition contains the following structure:
BOOT/ - containing only boot.sdi
BOOTSECT.BAK
EFI/ which contains two directories Boot/ and Microsoft/
so EFI/Boot/ contains only Boot64.efi which is likely a fallback copy of the Windows 8.1 bootloader
and EFI/Microsoft/ contains a Boot/ directory - so
EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ contains loads of language specific directories like en-GB/
plus bootmgfw.efi (which I believe is the Windows main efi loader file)
bootmgr.efi
memtest.efi
The scheme that I am planning to use which I have previously used in pure Arch uefi machines, is that /boot is a directory in the root partition, /. That way /boot is an ext4 directory and will contain the kernel and initramfs plus the rEFInd linux config file.
Then I can mount the EFI (vfat) partition as /boot/efi and so I can then make a /boot partition under /. Then the EFI /BOOT/ directory would be seen in Linux as /boot/efi/BOOT/ and the Windows efi stuff would be in /boot/efi/EFI/Boot/Microsoft/Boot/ in which case I would presume that I have to make a new directory in /boot/efi/EFI/refind/ and put the refind stuff including the filesystem drivers there, and let the kernel go into the (ext4) /boot/ directory which would be preferred! However I am not 100% confident that this is what will work and I need to read more before trying to do the install. The thing that concerns me is how the system will handle the uefi boot process, and whether it would auto-detect the Windows efi file as well as the Arch refind efi file once the system has started up?
... and then there is the issue of the NVRAM entries and I am no longer confident that if I use the usual tools to create an entry (efiboomgr or bcfg), that I will get a successful dual boot system!
There is still a chance that I would irrevocably damage being able to boot to the Windows and Recovery partition boot options by messing up the EFI and/or the NVRAM so I have to tread very very carefully with this.
If anyone has gone through this kind of dual boot install with a Windows 8 or 8.1 machine using rEFInd for the bootloader, and can offer advice or help here I would very much appreciate it. I have another pure Arch system which uses rEFInd that works extremely well, but it seems that dual boot with uefi is a rather more complex animal than a pure linux system!
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-02-22 10:06:03)

vipin wrote:I have recently bought the y510p , im planning to install Arch , this is my 4th laptop , i had installed Arch in all the other 3 with no problems, but im a bit worried with the installation as this is the first laptop which has EFI , im a linux user for the past 6 years , i started with fedora , now i like Arch , mike documentation is excellent, i just had one question when i had grub , it automatically finds the new kernel when i update (grub.conf/menu.lst gets updated), does rEFInd also do that.
When there is an update to the rEFInd package you need to copy the files across to your ESP from the files contained in /usr/share/refind/ usually you need to copy the refind_x64.efi binary as well as the icons, fonts, and drivers directories. Since there is flexibility in how you configure the kernel and initrd files in terms of where they are located whether you need to do anything else when a new kernel update arrives depends on how you set your system up. If you have the /boot directory as your ESP partition which will then have the kernel and initrd files updated by default then there no need to do anything else when there is a kernel update. If the ESP is then at /boot/EFI and within that is your refind/ directory then that is where the replacement files go if refind-efi gets a pacman update. So it is actually fairly straight forward. If you configure rEFInd to look for kernels in some other directory than /boot/ then you may need to copy the files there after a kernel update but there is more information in the arch wiki about this.
During a refind-efi package update there are helpful files in the pacman output (and log) reminding you of what you need to do. eg for the latest refind-efi update you get:
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded radvd (1.12-1 -> 1.13-1)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd UEFI application has been installed at /usr/share/refind/refind_*.efi
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Other UEFI applications have been installed at /usr/share/refind/tools_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] UEFI drivers have been installed at /usr/share/refind/drivers_*/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Copy the efi application (according to your UEFI ARCH)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] and /usr/share/refind/refind.conf-sample to a sub-directory of <EFISYS>/EFI/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] as refind.conf and add an entry to firmware boot menu using efibootmgr
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] or mactel-boot (for Macs)
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Icons have been installed at /usr/share/refind/icons/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] rEFInd Fonts have been installed at /usr/share/refind/fonts/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] HTML Documentation is available at /usr/share/refind/docs/html/
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] More info: [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Using_rEFInd[/url]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET]
[2014-06-18 18:48] [PACMAN] upgraded refind-efi (0.8.1-1 -> 0.8.2-1)
I hope that helps.
By the way you can also boot uefi using grub and in fact you can get rEFInd to chainload grub as a backup bootloader as an added safety factor and have both rEFInd as well as grub installed simultaneously. How that can be done is explained in the thread at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=181906
Last edited by mcloaked (2014-06-25 17:41:12)

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