Moinak Ghosh wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss > Hi, I dont have a 40 pin hard disk connector anymore so i guess there is no master ,slave arrangement on my system. I was using a PATA disk (that had this sort of methodology).Now am using a Sata2 disk Anyway, i have appended a snap after executing the lines you had given. Please have a look at it.
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