Please Help: Solaris 8 Installation Failure

Question

Hi Everyone.
I have a brand new Dell PowerEdge 500SC, Ram= 1G, and there is no operating system on it. I tried to install from both the Installation CD or the Software CD 1, 2, but I get the same warnings and the installation fails and the system reboots itself and so on and so forth.
I have not done any partitioning.
These are the warnings I recieve:
Warning /pci @0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@1 (ata1):
Time out: abort Request, target=0, Lun=0
Warning /pci @0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@1 (ata1):
Time out: abort Device, target=0, Lun=0
Warning /pci @0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@1 (ata1):
Time out: Reset Target, target=0, Lun=0
Warning /pci @0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@1 (ata1):
Time out: Reset Bus, target=0, Lun=0
At this point the system reboots itself.
Also in the beginning I get the Warning that APCI Tables no in Reclaim Memory.
Thank you

Answer 1

Well,
I am not familiar with your machine, and not sure
if this will help,
but start with the following:
- from your BIOS, disable the Plug and Play option,
- from your BIOS, set APIC to PIC for the interrupt
handling
- Take the NIC (ethernet card) off the computer,
- Then when you are starting the DCA program,
did the system ever finished scanning and probing
the the devices ?
If it did, before you hit continue (F2),
do Device Tasks (F4), and then take a look at
the IDE devices.
Sometimes, the problem appears when both IDE controller are detected as one controller with
2 interrupts. Check if this is the case.
Some times you might need to split that IDE controller into two different one, each with its
own port and IRQ.
good luck and let me know if