[ug-bosug] reg Solaris Build 70 installation issues
Moinak Ghosh
moinak.ghosh at sun.com
Mon Sep 3 11:17:15 PDT 2007
Hi KNR,
The upcoming Slim Install project is supposed solve the Install
memory requirement woes:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Slim_Install/
Though the initial release will be a preview/beta release only providing
a basic OpenSolaris environment, not a complete Solaris Express setup.
However a bunch of that work can be plugged back into the Solaris
Express LiveMedia Kit to provide a smooth install experience for a
complete Solaris Express environment requiring just 70MB of RAM.
LiveMedia Kit:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/livemedia/
It will be possible to do this once a Slim Install beta release is
available,
sometime in Oct. In fact if the lab machines have USB ports we can also
do very fast installs from a USB stick.
Regards,
Moinak.
KNR wrote:
> The mail below from the students of PSG is fater a meeting I had with
> them, during my visit to PSG on Saturday.
> The tenacity of this one student Murali, is greatly appreciable. He
> has been an ardent and devout fan of Solaris and I am told that he had
> to make 75 attemtps to install Solaris before he could make it work
> successfully. Speaks volumes about the quality of usability!
>
> I asked them to use build 70 and report to us their experience. This
> mail is a result of that.
>
> Can one of you take ownership to make sure that these are reported to
> the SXDE team.
> Thanks,
> KNR
>
> C.M wrote:
>> Dear US-BOSUG,
>>
>> Here is a list of issues we face with solaris Build 70 installation.
>> Looking forward for your kind assistance!
>>
>>
>> *Pre installation issues *snv_70
>>
>> 1.
>> Our lab machines have only 512 MB physical memory and Solaris
>> Express edition or Solaris interactive mode or even the Desktop
>> session doesn’t work with 512mb.
>> Most of the college machines comes with physical memory up to
>> 512 only , in that case the installation becomes difficult
>> unless the user chooses the Solaris Interactive CONSOLE SESSION
>> to proceed with the installation.
>>
>>
>> 2.
>> Our Lab Machines configuration is
>> Intel 945 Board with dual core processor 2.8 ghz , with 512 MB
>> physical memory
>> We tried to install the OS in_ Solaris interactive Text
>> (Console session)
>> _It comes up with
>> *Setting up Java. Please wait…
>> *and the installation freezes.
>>
>> 3.
>> This is known issue which we have come across in many of the
>> previous builds
>>
>> It comes up with
>> *? attempting to configure interface e1000g0 *and then it says
>> *skipped interface e1000g0?*
>>
>> Build 70 is still not able to automatically configure the network card.
>> Every time we issue the plumb command to configure it.
>>
>> *Post installation issues *snv_70 * *
>> The following Errors are display every time we boot the Solaris build
>> 70 Machines…
>>
>> 1.
>> This is known issue which we have come across in many of the
>> previous builds and we have posted it across the community
>> several months before and we are yet to receive a solution for
>> this issue.
>>
>> *Warning: last shutdown is later than time on time-of-day chip:
>> check date.
>> *
>> 2.
>> Warning : /pci at 0, 0/pci-ide at 1f , 2/ide at 1 (ata3):
>> timeout : abort request, target=0 lun =0
>>
>> 3.
>> Warning : /pci at 0, 0/pci-ide at 1f , 2/ide at 1 (ata3):
>> timeout : abort device, target=0 lun =0
>>
>> 4.
>> Warning : /pci at 0, 0/pci-ide at 1f , 2/ide at 1 (ata3):
>> timeout : reset target, target=0 lun =0
>>
>> 5.
>> Warning : /pci at 0, 0/pci-ide at 1f , 2/ide at 1 (ata3):
>> timeout : reset bus, target=0 lun =0
>>
>> 6.
>> Warning : /pci at 0, 0/pci-ide at 1f , 2/ide at 1 (ata3):
>> timeout : early timeout, target=0 lun =0
>>
>> 7.
>> Warning: /pci at 0, 0/pci-ide at 1f , 2/ide at 1/cmdk at 0,0 (Disk 0)
>> Error for command ‘read sector’ Error Level : Informational
>> Sense Key: aborted command
>> Vendor ‘Gen-ATA’ error code: 0x3
>>
>> 8.
>> Warning: /pci at 0, 0/pci-ide at 1f , 2/ide at 1/cmdk at 0,0 (Disk 0)
>> Error for command ‘read sector’ Error Level : Informational
>> Sense Key: aborted command
>> Vendor ‘Gen-ATA’ error code: 0x3
>>
>>
>>
>> 9.
>> syslogd : line 45 warning: localhost could not be resolved.
>>
>> [date,time] [hostname] sendmail[494] My unqualified hostname
>> ( localhost unknown) sleeping for retry
>> [date,time] [hostname] sendmail[496] My unqualified hostname
>> ( localhost unknown) sleeping for retry
>>
>>
>>
>> 10.
>> If you restart the os with out rebooting it properly it comes
>> up with
>> Warning : Error reading Master
>> Warning : ufs log for /changed state to Error
>> Warning : please unmount(1M) / and run fsck(1M)
>> Warning : exec(/sbin/init) failed with errno 5.
>> (unix: Could not start init)
>> Press any key to reboot..
>>
>> This warning repeats even if you reboot the machine and the only way
>> to get rid of this is by login through *Solaris failsafe mode..*(
>> Previously this was not the case) In the Previous solaris builds, we
>> have tried many system resets still the os never gets into these
>> warning traps.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> C.Murali & M.Tech Students,
>> PSG college of technology,
>> Coimbatore.
>>
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