russell aspinwall wrote: > I need to install a modified SUNWlsimega driver in order to recognise my LSI > MegaRAID SATA 8X controller which I have been using for nearly two years with > Solaris. Once booted from the OpenSolaris 2008.11 LiveCD I have removed the > SUNWlismega driver and I have installed my modified version but have not > managed to get it to rescan the hardware in order to recognise the hardware. > > On the OpenSolaris: discuss forum a posting advised booting to single user > mode. I tried this on my OpenSolaris 2008.11 install in a VBox by selecting > 'e' at the Grub boot stage and editting the kernel line to include -s, I also > removed the graphical console option but the VirtualBox client had not booted > to single user mode after 15 minutes (a normal OpenSolaris boot is around 1 > minute) > Hi Russell,
We just discussed something similar to what you are trying to do yesterday. Take a look at the following thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=102132&tstart=0 In particular, look at the reply from Dave Miner on suggestions of things to try. --Karen
