I think, earlier I replied to Anil only accidentally, here it is for
everyone else....
Hello Anil,
Here is the dump of basically what happens when I run usbdump, along with
the commands that you asked me to run...
Hope it helps, hehe on the other hand, I've gotten quite used to running
belenix from cd, :) instead of booting from HD, idea is just don't turn the
machine off :)
svcs: Pattern 'volfs' doesn't match any instances
Disabling Removable Media Manager
Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
Select the device you wish to install to from following list:
1 : /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 4.8 GB ST650211 CF 0811 USB
Enter your choice (1,q)?1
INFORMATION: USB found at node /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0
WARNING: All data on your USB storage will be lost.
Are you sure you want to install to ST650211, MB at /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0
?(y/n)
y
Creating slices on USB
Not a removable media device
WARNING: Could not create slices on USB.
Giving up.
Enabling Removable Media Manager
(root at belenix)# rmformat
Looking for devices...
1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0
Physical Node: /pci at 0,0/pci1462,7280 at 1d,7/storage at 6/disk at 0,0
Connected Device: ST650211 CF 0811
Device Type: Removable
Bus: USB
Size: 4.8 GB
Label: <None>
Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
2. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0p0
Physical Node: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,2/ide at 0/sd at 1,0
Connected Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4082B A201
Device Type: DVD Reader/Writer
Bus: IDE
Size: 694.7 MB
Label: <None>
Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
(root at belenix)# fdisk -W - /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 |grep bytes/sector | nawk
'{print $2 }'
512
(root at belenix)# fdisk -W - /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 |tail -1 | nawk 'print $10}'
nawk: syntax error at source line 1
context is
>>> print <<< $10}
extra }
nawk: bailing out at source line 1
(root at belenix)# fdisk -W - /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 |tail -1 | nawk '{print $10}'
9760768
(root at belenix)#
On 7/19/07, Gurpreet Singh <gsbhamra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thats fine,
> All I really want to know, is there anything that I can do to getting it
> running..seeing that everything else installed fine.
> Although I am totally new to this unix thing, I am pretty got at following
> instructions :)
>
> Also could you verify, that usbdump doesn't have the same problem, cause
> then I can atleast try go out a get a 1G or 512Mb stick and install it on
> that :)
> Its just that I tried your live cd, and that looks awesome, so I want to
> try it bit more, but running from cdrom does have its drawbacks :(
>
> Gurpreet
>
> On 7/19/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> > Gurpreet Singh wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > I get this error:
> > > multiboot is longer used to boot the Solaris Operating System
> > > The Grub entry should be changed to:
> > > kernel$ /platform/i86/pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
> > > module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
> > > See http://www.sun.com/msg/SUNOS-8000-AK for details.
> > > Press any key to reboot
> > >
> > > if I follow these instructions, and reboot and then edit grub lines to
> >
> > > show exactly as specified, then I get an error
> > >
> > > Booting Command-list
> > > root (hd0,0,a)
> > > Filesystem type is ufs, partition type 0xbf
> > > kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix
> > > loading '/platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix'...
> > > cpu: 'GenuineIntel' family 15 model 2 step 9
> > > amd64: CPU does NOT support long mode
> > > amd64: CPU does NOT support amd64 executables.
> > > module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
> > > loading '/platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive' ...
> > >
> > > Error 20: Multiboot kernel must be loaded before modules
> > >
> > > Press any key to continue...
> > >
> > > when I press a key, it takes me back to grub menu.
> > [...]
> >
> > Unfortunately the hdinstaller is borked in 0.6.1. This will have to
> > be
> > rectified in 0.6.2.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Moinak.
> >
> >
>
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