[indiana-discuss] Cannot install OpenSolaris snv108 on my SDHC

[Masafumi Ohta]

On 2009/03/08, at 19:54, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Masafumi Ohta <masafumi.ohta at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> but zpool status said the error (see attached files)
>
> That zpool status shows that your pool experience checksum errors. It
> MIGHT be that your SD card is bad, or your system is incompatible to
> use SD as boot device.
>

I don't think so much SD is not useful as boot device.and I will have  
to try 101b
that I used with SDHC.it can boot and worked good.

> My experince trying to get SD as boot device on multiple OS has been
> unsucsessfull due to a lot of factors :
> - on my current Acer Aspire One, SD controller is PCI. It has high
> throughput, but not BIOS-bootable. Ouch.
> - on my earlier eepc 2G, SD controller is connected via USB (is it the
> same thing with your 901?). It's bootable, but throughput is dead slow
> (compared to the same card attached to my Aspire One). This means
> Windows is no-no because performance is simply not acceptable.
> - using Linux with squashfs on eepc SD increased the performance
> somewhat to an acceptable level (due to I/O need reduced). I had to
> gave up on that as well though, because after several hours the SD
> card overheated, and Linux shows lots of disk errors that it remounts
> the filesystem read-only.
>

Yeah I know its problems you indicate.the read/write IOs SDHC has  
deadly slow(6MB/s?)
and SDHC has overheat problems(it cant write/read when overheated)
And more it doesnt has good qualities,that is some is succeeded in  
installation other is not.
So I strongly recommend not to use SDHC as boot device for  
OpenSolaris...
(I try this because many Eee Users use SDHC as boot device for  
OpenSolaris)


> The same condition (overheat) MIGHT be what's causing zfs checksum
> errors on your setup. If that is the case, then your SD is not
> suitable as boot device for any OS.
>

hmm...I don't think so.I met the same problems when installing Nevada - 
its installer always stopped
the way to proceeding and SDHC overheated,but I succeeded in Ubuntu  
installation using the same SDHC..

Thanks advice,

-masafumi


> Regards,
>
> Fajar