Holger: I am not sure whether you run into this bug:
6227829 - some optical drives do not behave well with DMA enabled on systems with CSB5 The symptoms were similar and if you try to install on a system with this kind of optical drive, it does not work and fails as follow: [...] Setting up Java. Please wait... ERROR: Can't find windowing software, exiting to shell # Can you try the following workaround and see whether this fixes your problem: For a GRUB based system (nevada/S11), at the grub boot screen, "e"dit the default entry, "e"dit the kernel...multiboot line, append -B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0 Make sure you hit RETURN to save the entry. This change will only be remembered for the current boot cycle. If you wish to make the change persistant, you need to edit the grub memu.lst file (see bootadm list-menu and friends) If this fixes your problem, it will be good if you can run cdrw -l and get the Drive information. Holger Burde wrote: > Hi; > > I tested a bit further and it seems some sort of BIOS and/or Hardware related > strangeness is going on. Every drive i connect to that box does not work > (tested 3 different DVD and 2 CD Drives) with solaris - only the original one > works (CD). All drives boot, load _but_ fail at the windowing stage. > > The same test with Linux (DVD install with (solaris) failed drives) just > works. Seems i have to go for a network install. > > > hb > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Mary Ding _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ Member of Technical Staff _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ UMPK17-307 _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Menlo Park, CA. 94043 _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ mary.ding at Eng.Sun.COM 650-786-8317 (phone) M I C R O S Y S T E M S --------------------------------------------------------------------
