Installing Solaris Problems

I am trying to install Solaris 8. I downloaded the free cd images and made cd's. My problem is I can't get it the install program to boot. I downloaded the device config assistant and with that, it will boot. It goes through some configurations, and then restarts. The problem is when it restarts, I am back where I started. If I take the floppy out, it boots to windows, if I leave the floppy in, the device config assistant comes up again and it goes through the exact same thing, and restarts again. If anyone has any suggestions, they would be appreciated! Thanks!

I guess you have installed Solaris on oder drive as the boot one. If it is the case, make sure the x86boot system file ist mount on the c0d0 disk (i.e. your first drive), so the installation will create a boot manager to let you choose wich boot device you want to boot. You need 10Mb free on this drive to mount it there.

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Install Solaris problem

I have installed Solaris 8(English version).
Now I want to install multi-language CD on it.
When I install it on SPARC machine, it represented "install failed".
It is all eight languages on that multi-language on that CD.
I can install seven languages of that CD.
But I can't install 'Traditional Chinese Language' on my SPARC machine.
I assured my multilingual CD is normal.
I try to reinstall my SPARC machine and the problem is the same.
Does somebody encounter this problem?
If you have any idea about this please tell me.

I already bought the zip driv ~ 130$, and so don't wan to spend more on some floppy drive.
And the borrowing/begging option isn't possible since I know no body in this new place of mine.
And I can't "steal".... out of the question.
Any other suggestion more related to the Ranish PM or some other similar software that helps convert FAT32 to Solaris parition? I know Partition Magic doesn't even recognize Solaris partition since I have one.
-van.

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

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.

Problem installing solaris 10 10/08 (x86) in multi-boot configuration

I'm trying to build a an x86_64 that can boot solaris10, Centos 5.3 and Ubuntu 8.10. (below is the linux fdisk data)
I have successfully installed the Ubuntu (partition 3& 6) and Centos ( parititions 2 &5 ).
Every time I've tried to install solaris, I get "initial fdisk information on disk c0d0 was invalid" and
it wants to reformat the disk with 100% solaris. I've tried
- setting /dev/sda1 as type BE with the Centos fdisk
- setting /dev/sda1 as type BF with the Centos fdisk
- setting /dev/sda1 as type 0 ( empty) with the Centos fdisk
- setting /dev/sda1 as type 0c ( FAT32) and formatting the the partition as FAT32.
I get the same response from solaris each time. I'm new to solaris ( my last sunos exposure was 4.1.1),
and can't figure out what the problem is and don't want to rebuild the whole system.
Any suggestions?
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13047 104799996 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 13048 26094 104799996 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 26095 39141 104799996 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 39142 121601 662359950 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 39142 41230 16779861 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 41231 43319 16779861 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 43320 56366 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda8 56367 69413 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda9 69414 82460 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda10 82461 95507 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda11 95508 108554 104799996 0 Empty
/dev/sda12 108555 121601 104799996 83 Linux

Just encountered this same problem with an X64 build using a flash archive of Solaris 10/09 and using XVM 2.5.0.1186 :
Installing boot information
cannot mount '/a/rpool': directory is not empty
bootadm: mount of ZFS pool rpool failed
bootadm: cannot mount pool dataset for pool: rpoolWhen I examine the canmount zfs options just after it fails I see :
# zfs get canmount
NAME                PROPERTY VALUE     SOURCE
rpool               canmount noauto    local
rpool/ROOT          canmount on        default
rpool/ROOT/zfsroot canmount noauto    local
rpool/dump          canmount -         -
rpool/swap          canmount -         -Should I be setting canmount=on for just 'rpool' then ?

Problem facing installing Solaris 10 on Dell inspiron 6400.

Hi,
I am facing problem in installing Solaris 10 on my Dell inspiron 6400.
It is giving "cannot find driver for screen device /isa/motherboard@1,61" error.
Please help...
Thanks In Advance
Saurabh

Hi all,
I've also the same problem, I tried the 11/06 but after GRUB , it hangs. HereBelow the HCL.
No Solaris Driver
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     Intel Corporation
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No Solaris Driver
     No Solaris Driver
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Solaris 10 11/06
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Note-1
     Note-1
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     vgatext
Solaris 10 11/06
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     Storage
     Intel Corporation
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     pci-ide
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1
     uhci
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     USB
     Intel Corporation
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Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
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     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3
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Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
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     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4
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Solaris 10 11/06
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     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
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Problem while installing solaris 10 on HP proliant DL 380 G5.

Hi,
facing problem while installing solaris 10 05/09 on HP proliant DL 380G5. The array controller is E200.
i have installed the raid controller driver CPQary3-2.1.0-solaris10-i386, it is going ahead but not detecting the whole hard disk space. My hard disk space is SAS 146GB. There are two 146GB hard disk present. It is showing only 978 MB & only one hard disk. So please help me out. my mail ID is [email protected]

I have a similar issue trying to load Solaris 10u4 on an IBM x236.
I had to put in a recognized SCSI card, attach an external array to the card, and install Solaris 10u4 on the array. Then I had to install the correct driver from OpenSolaris (an Adaptec one for IBM ServeRAID), and do a live upgrade onto the now-visible internal disks. Then I removed the array and cleaned up the traces from the live upgrade.
You may have to do something similar.
And last month the boot drive got corrupted when power was interrupted. "Oops. Wrong plugs..." This time the external array will stay connected.

Problem when installing Solaris 10

I've read that there is a post with the same problem I have, but I found no solution there.
So I made this tread, hoping someone willing to help me.
OK, here is the story...
I have tried several times to install Solaris 10, from DVD to my laptop Dell Latitude C400.
(I've run the hardware compatibilty check routine, and it's OK except the video card)
After I made the partition, then rebooted using the DVD and the Solaris seems to load normally.
It apperas the Grub menu, then I choosed Solaris option.
But after that it just stops on a screen that says:
SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118844-26 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
And it just hangs, nothing more...
Any idea what should I do to install Solaris successfully...???
Thanks in advance

Hi Darren,
Thanks God I've succesfully installed Solaris 10 to my laptop, after "swimming" for a while in google :)
It said that this was a bug of Solaris 10 when installed in PC with Pentium III or II processors.
Here is the solutions (hope someone with same problem with me could find it useful) :
1. After the GRUB menu appears, edit the kernel line then append -kd at the end (to enter kmdb upon boot), then boot
2. Then type this command when kmdb prompt shows, [0]>
[0]> cmi_no_init/W1
[0]> :c 3. It should boot and run without problem, then follow the installation menu and option
4. After reboot, again follow step 1 & 2 when GRUB menu shows. I promise this is the last time :)
5. To make it permanent, add this following instruction to */etc/system* once the system up
set cmi_no_init=1//Henry

Problem installing Solaris 10 onto CP1500

I'm trying to install Solaris 10 11/06 onto a CP1500 (UlraSparc-IIi, 440MHZ, 1GB RAM, OpenBoot 3.10.24, using a PS/2 Keyboard). The install CD boots up, but soon after the initial boot (after it displays copyright information but before the installer starts) it goes into a state where it syncs the file system, then reboots. If set to boot from the CD-ROM, it just goes through this process in an continuous loop: boot, cut to file system sync, reboot, cut to file system sync, reboot, wash, rinse, repeat to infinity. The acutal file system sync happens in the blink of an eye. I don't believe that this has anything to do with the state of the hard disk, as it does this even when the hard disk is disconnected from the SCSI bus.
I'm installing from an IDE CD-ROM drive that is connected to the SCSI bus using an adapter. I've sucessfully installed Solaris 8 onto this system, but alas, I need Solaris 10.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

I downloaded the latest version of Solaris 10, and that solved the problem of the continual reboots. Now the keyboard doesn't work, but that's a different problem.

Solaris 8 4/01 Intel Instalation/Boot Problems

I am TRYING to install the Solaris 8 for Intel and i am having several problems.
I managed to solve some of them but now i am stuck.
I am running a PII with a an Adapetc 2940 and a scsi disk.
I am using interactive instalation one software cd 1.
I am creating 2 partions one X86 boot with 10 Mb and another one of solaris type with 8500 Mb.
in the second one i created a slice for root and another one for swap.
The problem is after all the instalation completes the system wont boot !
Any ideia why ?
I created a dos boot partion and it boots fine.
How can i create a boot disk ?
How can access the file system a just created to check ?
How can i rewrite the mbr ?
I am using one disk and for solaris only, am i creating the right partion schema ?
Please help.
Thanks in Advance,
Pedro Oliveira

Howdy,
I am please to see someone with ethics responding to some basic questions of a solaris install problem on an intel platform. I have been working with solaris on sparc for a while, not I am trying the Intel side of the house.
I am having a similar problem as you mentioned. I have a Compaq Deskpro system with an IDE 2gb disk to install Solaris 8 4/01 on. I get all the way through the instructions to #27 on the DOC CD to the reboot of the system and the pulling out of the Installation CD. It tells me that I will need to wait for the system to reset then pull out the CD before the sytem completes its Memory test and HW detection.
I think I am removing the CD when this is being done, but the only thing I am seeing is a compaq logo and an hourglass forever....the screen seems to hang there forever.
Should I leave the installation CD in the drive longer?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Dennis

Problem of installing solaris 8

I got the following warning message when I install Solaris 8(Intel x86) on
my PC(Abit KT7 motherboard, AMD Duron 650 CPU, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64
display adapter) from bootable CD-ROM.
Determing bus types and gathering hardware configuration data...
Warning: Resource Conflict- both devices are added
Non-ACPI device: PNP0C01
Memory: FFFE0000-FFFFFFFF, FEE00000-FEE0FFFF
ACPI device: PNP0C01
Memory: CA800-CBFFF, 1FFF0000-1FFFFFFF, FFFF0000-FFFFFFFF,
9FC00-9FFFF, 40F0000-1FFEFFFF, FEE00000-FEE00FFF
Then I ignore the message, press ENTER key to continue. Everything seems ok, but when it boot the SunOs(even not begin to install), it restart
my computer without any prompts. I try to install it again, but the same
restart happened again .
I think the problem maybe result from the motherboard or display adapter.
Could you tell me how to resolve it?
my email: [email protected] I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks for your time.
Best regards,
Charles Mao

I am having the same problem with an ASUS K7M and Athlon 550, but only after I fixed(!) the conflicting addresses in the Windows device manager. Win95 had also reported the same conflicting addresses before but I fixed it by deleting the PnP device and rebooting - Windows assigned new non-conflicting addresses. Solaris boot was still showing the conflict but now also crashed as you described.

Problems installing Solaris 10 on Dell PowerEdge 800

Hi,
I am experiencing some trouble when I attempt to install Solaris 10 on a Dell PowerEdge 800. It is equipped with two RAID disks controlled by a Dell CERC SATA 1.5/6ch (according to the BIOS).
The installation program reports that it cannot write to the disk. This happens when it is about to start installing files. Tried setting it to a single volume and disable RAID. Same thing. Read another article saying something about disabling IDE, well it doesn't seem to help ...
Any hints?

I have the same problem on a dell 750 with the SERC controller. I can add some more information but if you get a solution I would appreciate the detail.
1) If I install Solaris via the SERC in RAID 1 mode then the alarm on the SERC goes off as soon as I start to write to the disk.
2) I bypassed the SERC and installed on a single disk straight off the motherboard. Time the install crashed at the same point but this time the error message told me that the first available cylinder was number 3! Ah
3) I reconnected the disk via the SERC, rebuilt the RAID array and made a mistake. I created a RAID 0 (striped) array and installed the software starting from cylinder 3. I got a complete solaris install that rebooted fine and is fully working.
BUT I NEED A MIRRORED SYSTEM SO
4) I rebuild the machine again this time RAID 1 and again the crash occured at exactly the same point i.e. as soo as I start to write to the disk.
Whether or not DELL / Adaptec support Solaris should not be an issue. This is a BIOS configurable RAID controller that can be fully serviced (e.g. disks replaced) from the BIOS. The system sees the array as a disk via the controller and indeed it is seeing it.
The SERCs own data configuration data should be on sectors which are not visible to solaris VIA the SERC so we shouldnt be able to damage them but I suspect that this may not be the case.
I suspect that the answer is in the partition layout and who or what creates them (I dont mean the Solaris slices but the FDISK partitions)
To make matters worse, since I need the machine working I went back to disks straight of the motherboard and configured again and used metadevices to set up a fully mirrored systemas I have done many times before on sparc (but never on Solaris x86)
This worked fine but I thought that I would test bootability in the event of disk failure. There isnt any!
if disk 1 fails then the motherboard wont accept disk 2 unless you swap the cables and move it do disk 1 and by then the boot sectors are wrong for the address of the device. I can probably solve this by building both disks in slot one but who wants a mirrored server that you have to open up and move a cable when the disk fails. I think I may have to ditch SATA and go back to SCSI !

Problem installing Solaris on a Ultra 10

I have been trying to install Solaris 10 but I can�t I don�t know why, after the first boot my Sparc 10 (Serial #16605019 � Host ID: 80fd5f5b � Ethernet address: 8:0:20:fd:5f:5b)) stop on the following step:
Boot device: disk File and args:
SunOs Release ��..
Copyright �� All rights reserved.
So, I tried to install Solaris 8 just to check with the problem was a media issue but the same thing happens
Boot device: disk File and args:
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-01 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved
Therefore, OpenBSD works fine at the same machine.
In conclusion, my Sparc 10 machine can�t run Solaris (even 8 or 10). Is it possible someone help me with this issue ?
Following my workstation hardware configuration:
UltraSPARC-Iii 440MHz
1 GB Memory
70GB Hard Drive
DVD-RW
OpenBoot 3.25, 1024 MB (50ns)

ok probe-ide
Device 0 ( Primary Master )
ATA Model: MAXTOR STM380215A
Device 1 ( Primary Slave )
Not Present
Device 2 ( Secondary Master )
Removable ATAPI Model: HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N
Device 3 ( Secondary Slave )
Not Present
ok boot -v
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0 File and args: -v
Size: 344496+88281+61647 Bytes
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-01 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Ethernet address = 8:0:20:fd:5f:5b
mem = 1048576K (0x40000000)
avail mem = 1030299648
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pcipsy0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x0
pcipsy0 is /pci@1f,0
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simba0 is /pci@1,1/pci@1,1
PCI-device: pci@1, simba1
simba1 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1
PCI-device: ide@3, uata0
uata0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3
dad0 at pci1095,6460 target 0 lun 0
dad0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/dad@0,0
<DEFAULT cyl 38307 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255>
root on /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a fstype ufs
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power0 at ebus0: offset 14,724000
power0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/power@14,724000
su0 at ebus0: offset 14,3083f8
su0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3083f8
su1 at ebus0: offset 14,3062f8
su1 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/su@14,3062f8
PCI-device: SUNW,m64B@2, m640
m640 is /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/SUNW,m64B@2
m64#0: 1280x1024, 4M mappable, rev 4750.7c
cpu0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi (upaid 0 impl 0x12 ver 0x91 clock 440MHz)

Problem in installing solaris 10 in sun blade 1000

Dear all,
I am trying to install solaris 10 in sun blade 1000 and getting a problem that disk doesn't exist ......... After several tentatives, I understood that I need to format a harddrive as it is new. I formeted it with boot cdrom -s and the problem still persists.
I bought a 73g HDD and the machine recognize it as 68,38g .. is there any upgrade I need to perform for it
Could someone please help me to solve this problem
Thanks a lot for your help and reply ...

I have the same problem ..ubuntu installs fine
TIA
Dale

Out Of Frequency problem -- After Installing solaris 10 x86

Hi Solarians,
After installing solaris 10, I am getting "*Out Of Frequency*" problem and I am not able to login to Desktop session. Please let me know configuration changes that i need to make along with exact paths as i am new to solaris.Currently i am running dual OS (XP and Solaris).
Out of Frequency
HF: 42.7 KHZ
VF: 40.0 HZ
Operating Frequency
HF: 30 - 71 KHZ
VF: 50 - 160 HZ
Please help me solve this problem, Thanks in advance .....
Thanks,
Mahesh

hi;
I faced that problem when I was a beginner on solaris as you were. I tried to install solaris to my windows installed x86 based PC. in my fisrst few attempts ý always saw that message, afterwards somehow I managed to install solaris to my PC but this time windows failed.I think that is because of the inconsistencies between those OS but if you need to install solaris you can use VM ware workstation with this software you can use both OS without problems.

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