[ug-bosug] 79a not installing on my new Hard disk? some development

[Moinak Ghosh]

sham pavman wrote:
> Hi Bosug,
> Continuing my quest to make solaris work on my new system , i edited 
> the command line at the boot screen with this,
>
> -v -m verbose
>
> Hoping to capture something .This time the smf managed to load 
> completely (all 186).
> Then again with so many things scrolling on the screen i finally 
> managed to enter the console mode and used it to look around..
> I thought i could redo the same and capture the flow, so i rebooted.
> This time however with the same options being provided at the boot 
> screen,i didnt get through the first couple of scrolls itself.
> I have appended a screen shot ,please have a look at it and help me out.
> By the way what does that "unable to take control from bios" mean?

   The image indicates that your harddisk is being correctly detected 
because the cmdk0
   device comes up properly. The ehci message indicates some trouble 
with an USB
   device and interrupt sharing. Looks like you have a badly behaving 
BIOS. See here:
   
http://www.unixadmintalk.com/f4/solaris-10-1-06-ok-but-solaris-express-build-33-36-fail-26944/

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> Thanks
> Shampavman
>
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