Unable to install Solaris 10 on Dell PowerEdge 2850

The Kernel boots from CD without any problem but the "configuring devices" stage lasts very long without any progress/success.
The following messages appear, and the install seems to hang at this point:
Attempting to configure interface e1000g1
Skipping interface e1000g1
Attempting to configure interface e1000g0
Skipping interface e1000g0
This is a PowerEdge 2850, no RAID, three 73Gb drives, 2x3.4 GHz processors, 4 GB mem.
Attempted to install Solaris 8 and 9 and no success with either.
Please help.
thanks.

Hello,
I had a similar problem with an install on Dell. It appears it comes from the screen and/or video configuration detected by the installer. The installer try to test the screen conf and freezes.
To resolve, i had to choose the #4 option installation (console only).
When Solaris installation asks for validating the screen conf. press Esc and Continue (F2 ...) then choose BYPASS (F4) the test configuration.
You have to do the same with the CD 2 because the installer detect you did not validate the configuration before. At this step, press F5 to bypass again.
After that, all works well.
Hope this help you.
Kub.

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Tried to install - Solaris does say "No disks".
Wanted to use Sun's driver for LSI PERC 4e/Di RAID contoller which is onboard, so I made the diskette according to instructions. The driver is for Solaris 10 3/05 and there seems to be no new one for 1/06 release.
Used option 5 in the menu [Apply driver updates].
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Tried to specify boot option "acpi-user-options=2" in the GRUB. Then it fails to mount the floppy drive which is the only way to add the ITU driver.
Please, help.
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Tried to specify boot option "acpi-user-options=2" in the GRUB. Then it fails to mount the floppy drive
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Yeah, I knew this was going to happen...
This is bug 6312400:
Synopsis: ps/2 floppy is not enumerated when acpi is disabled or not supported
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 312400
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which is the only way to add the ITU driver.
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Unless this is changed between OpenSolaris / Solaris Express / Solaris Nevada and Solaris 10 Update 1, it is possible to add (one [*]) ITU driver
from an optical media.
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contained here: http://www.tools.de/solaris/itu/
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[*] http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 340822

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Hello,
Tried to install - Solaris does say "No disks".
Wanted to use Sun's driver for LSI PERC 4e/Di RAID contoller which is onboard, so I made the diskette according to instructions. The driver is for Solaris 10 3/05 and there seems to be no new one for 1/06 release.
Used 5 in the menu [Aapply driver updates].
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Please, help.
Thanks in advance.

I just did this on an 1850 with raid.
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Solaris 10 x86 don�t recognize hard disk of Dell PowerEdge 2850

Hi:
I�m installing Solaris 10 X86 in a PowerEdge 2850, after I changed ACPI and put 119376 -01 patch, now i can see disks but when the instalation begin it go until 15% and doesn�t follow with it and doesn�t show any messages .
I have a perc 4e/di Raid Controler and 3 hard disk off 73 Gb
Thanks for Advance.

Solaris 10 does not play well with certain raid controllers shipping on the Dell 2850s.
See http://forum.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=23549
You may want to look at the HCL entry for the 2850
From http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/details/806.html
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I work for a Small School District which is 98% Windows NT.
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Thanks a lot guys for nothing.
You assholes don't deserve a market share, and until you start either making your shit work, or at least being more helpful to those who would push your products you'll never get anywhere.
Fuck SUN Microsystems You're a bunch of good for nothing Dickwits...
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http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/
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please reply to
[email protected]
I hava download following files
http://jsecom9a.sun.com/servlet/EComTicketServlet/BEGIN3f4b%3A3af6cdb1%3
A63ff6c3b3a1ef233/45104607/97008243/1/53630/53642/45104607-97008243/2ts+
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all-fcs-bin-ia-ml.zip
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http://jsecom9a.sun.com/servlet/EComTicketServlet/BEGIN3f4b%3A3af6cdb1%3
A63ff6c3b3a1ef233/45104607/97008243/1/53630/53654/45104607-97008243/2ts+
/eastCoastFSEND/Sol8ML-1_01-IN-G-F/Sol8ML-1_01-IN-G-F-02/sol-8-1_01-fcs-
bin-ia-v1.zip
3
http://jsecom9a.sun.com/servlet/EComTicketServlet/BEGIN3f4b%3A3af6cdb1%3
A63ff6c3b3a1ef233/45104607/97008243/1/53630/53666/45104607-97008243/2ts+
/eastCoastFSEND/Sol8ML-1_01-IN-G-F/Sol8ML-1_01-IN-G-F-03/sol-8-1_01-fcs-
bin-ia-v2.zip
after unzip them , each one becomes a single large file like
sol-8-1_01-install-fcs-bin-ia-ml
I copy them to three cd's
then dd this to a floppy
http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/dca_diskettes/8/S8_0101.3
bootup from floppy
unable to file the cd
need instruction
please reply to
[email protected]
thanks

Hello,
You need to rename the 3 large files with an .iso extension to the end after you unzip them. For example, rename the first file from sol-8-1_01-install-fcs-bin-ia-ml to sol-8-1_01-install-fcs-bin-ia-ml.zip. Then you need to use EZ CD Creator to create a CD from an image file.
For more detailed information, visit:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/download.html
I hope this helps.
Allen
Sun Developer Technical Support

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