[ug-bosug] reg Solaris Build 70 installation issues

Thu Sep 20 12:00:11 PDT 2007

Dear Moinak Ghosh,

I am attempting to install a small foot print solaris on a AMD Geode
700 board as also on a phone. Could you please tell me when this 70 MB
foot print solaris experss is expected?

Thank you.
Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

On 9/3/07, Moinak Ghosh <moinak.ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> 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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