On 06/16/10 08:34 AM, Kyle McDonald wrote:
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On 6/16/2010 11:15 AM, Keith Mitchell wrote:
Hi Kyle,
The log files under /tmp after the install completes (/tmp/install_log,
etc.) would give additional clues, if you can provide them.
I'll see if I can get those off of the system before rebooting this
time. Is that log file copied to /a/var somewhere? if so I'll just
reboot from CD and grab it.
Additionally, more information on which types of machines you're
installing into would be valuable.
These systems are:
IBM eSeries x346 machines, with 36GB drives, and 4GB RAM.
For the Text Installer failure, more details about the bootadm
update-archive failure would be useful - at what point in the process
did the failure occur, and when did you manually re-execute it?
I didn't manually re-execute it. Looking at the logs, I saw the failure,
and then later (for some other reason?) the installer ran it again and I
didn't see a failure on that one.
Odd, but correct. For some reason, we're executing the update-archive
code twice. I filed bug 16295 against the dual execution as I don't
believe that's supposed to be that way (however, it's been harmless up
until now, so I don't think it's the true root cause of the issues
you're seeing).
In the AI case, since you can temporarily get console access, you could
manually modify /etc/ttydefs after install, but prior to rebooting, and
see if that helps:
I did do that, it was booting from the AI CD that I couldn't get the
serial console to work all the way.
Before rebooting, I ran 'beadm mount opensolaris /a', then I edited
/boot/solaris/bootenv.rc, /etc/ttydefs, and /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst
After that I ran 'bootadm update-archive /a'. It recreated 2 archives,
and then I rebooted.
In the grub menu I used 'e' to verify the menu.lst had the
'console=ttya' in it. So I booted it. That's when I see the '......' on
both the serial and VGA consoles, and I never see the kernel banner.
To clarify, did you run "beadm unmount opensolaris" after the bootadm
command? This is necessary to restore the proper mountpoint. If that
wasn't it, to help isolate the cause, if you boot the text install
media, go to a shell, and revert your changes to those files and reboot,
does the boot proceed as normal on the VGA console, or no?
I don't think it does (I saw the ARC case, but don't remember if it was
pre or post b134, or when it may have integrated,) but does this build
have the new fix for the kernel to look up in the ACPI tables the
settings for console redirection?
I don't believe that's in as of 134, but I'm not entirely familiar with
what you're referring to (is this the $CONSOLE grub option? or something
else?)
- Keith
Thanks for the quick response!
-Kyle
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