[brandz-discuss] Brandz within Parallels

[Steve Ferris]

Hi,

Great thanks. The grub menu workaround worked fine. Did allow me to  
install, sadly upon first boot the OS is very unhappy and I would  
imagine this is due to the Parallels virtualization.

I may wait until this is a little more "prime time"

Thanks very much for your help.

regards
Steve

On 14 Aug 2006, at 2:39pm, Nils Nieuwejaar wrote:

> On Sat 08/12/06 at 06:33 AM, steve at sollicker.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install brandz dvd (Build 35) into the recent  
>> refresh of Parallels. The DVD boots, but the cdrom device doesn't  
>> show up in the /dev/dsk area. Hence the DVD isn't mounted and the  
>> install fails.
>>
>> The issue first shows itself by the installer complaining it can't  
>> find files in /cdrom.
>>
>> Has anyone tried this or does anyone have any thoughts?
>
> This is a known problem with all Nevada-based Solaris builds.  I  
> worked
> around it by installing Solaris 10, and then using LiveUpgrade to  
> get a
> Nevada build running:
> 	http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/nilsn?entry=at_what_point_does_this1
>
> I haven't tried this yet, but I saw this tip on some other mailing  
> list:
>
>>> If you boot the ISO image (I'm using the DVD image) then press "e"
>>> at the grub menu, then "e" again, you can edit the kernel line to
>>> change:
>>>
>>> kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -B install_media=cdrom
>>>
>>> to:
>>>
>>> kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -B install_media=cdrom,atapi-cd-
>>> dma-enabled=0
>
> (Unforunately, this is all I saved.  I don't have the name of the  
> original
> poster, or even where I got it).
>
> Nils