Shampavman wrote: > [...] > Hi , > I've tried all that i knew, yet there is no improvement. > I tried initially with 79a but during the initial boot it hangs. > So i tried my luck with 70b yet the same result. > How is it that the installations is happening and not the boot from the > disk? > Also solaris should not by default choose 64bit ,shouldn't it be left to > the user to choose what he wants? > Anyway i changed it from 64bit to 32 and tried booting, yet the same > problem persists... > I need solaris up and running as early as possible, so please assist!!! > Is changing my hardware my only option? because this system is only > 4days old!! :'( >
You do not want to expose the technical nitty-gritties to the user. If it is a 64Bit system then the OS should use 64Bit mode automatically. There is rapid growth today in terms of Memory and Disk accessible to systems. Very soon 64Bit addressing capability will be mandatory even on entry-level systems, 32Bit is fast becoming history. I heard from Pradhap that you are seeing a vfs_mountroot panic when trying to boot with KMDB. Is this an internal harddisk or USB one ? Is this primary master or slave confguration ? Also what partitions are present on the disk ... you can find out by doing the following: Boot from harddisk In the GRUB screen press 'c' to drop to command line mode. Now type 'root(hd' and press TAB (like in bash), It will list possible harddisks. If the disk is primary masterit will be hd0. So type 'root(hd0,' and press TAB again. Now it will list all the partitions. Regards, Moinak. > Thanks > Shampavman > CA ,India > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
