Intel boot cd Solaris 8

Question

If you have problems creating the bootable cds from the downloadable Solaris 8 free files, you will see in the forum, the image provided for Solaris 8 is already an iso image. You need only burn the file as an image (not as a bootable cd). Have fun.

Answer 1

All of these messages are all quite normal solaris kernel
status messages (because you've booted with verbose "-v"
kernel messages).
Hmm, it has detected your IDE harddisc (SAMSUNG, 6.5GB)
as the slave device on the primary IDE channel (there were
probably more messages before that SAMSUNG hard disc
where it recognized the master device on the primary IDE
channel; there is a device connected as master on the
primary ide channel, right?).
And it has detected your ATAPI CDROM (COMPAQ SCR-3232)
on the secondary IDE channel, as the master device.
Is there a slave device present on the secondary IDE
channel? (probably not, otherwise it would appear
before the "PCI-device: ide@1, ata1" line).
Hmm, the next step is probably that the kernel scans for
SCSI controllers. Do you have any SCSI controllers in that
system? (It might hang probing for some SCSI controller)
Assuming there are no SCSI controllers, the next step
of the kernel would probably to look for disk drives on each
of the disk controllers. (So, it might hang talking to your
IDE hard disc drives)
Is the HDD LED active when the system is frozen?
Perhaps you get some real error messages when you wait a
minute or two?
If you temporarily remove the power connector from both of
the IDE hard discs on the primary IDE channel (so that the
only IDE device is the CDROM), and you boot again with
"b kadb -v", is it still hanging after:
model COMPAQ SCR-3232, stat 50, err 0
cfg 0x85c0, cyl 0, hd 0, sec/trk 0
mul1 0x0, mult2 0x0, dwcap 0x0, cap 0xf00
piomode 0x200, dmamode 0x200, advpiomode 0x3
minpio 120, minpioflow 120
valid 0x2, dwdma 0x407, majver 0x0
PCI-device: ide@1, ata1
ata1 is /pci@0, 0/pci-ide@0,1/ide@1