For those skimming, my actual question is below. See 2) .
I've just recently taken delivery of a shiny new Macbook Pro 17".
Since I've
read good things about Parallels, I thought I'd try it out with recent
builds.
Short answer is: it doesn't work. On reading forum posts both here
and at
Parallels, it seems I'm not the only one for whom this is true.
Longer answer is:
There are a few problems when booting from the install CD image, but
they
all seem to boil down to 2:
1) The virtual machine reboots spontaneously after the kernel banner
about
75% of the time.
This turns out to be a panic in microfind (which naturally I can't
re-produce now, as I write this, strange). Anyway, the
workaround for
6409305 worked for me.
2) The boot of solaris from the miniroot goes fine, but the cd fails to
mount, which seems to (thus far) be the cause of all the later
problems:
- "bzcat: Can't open input file
/cdrom/Solaris_*/Tools/Boot/X_small.cpio.bz2: No such file or
directory."
- "ERROR: The disc you inserted is not a Solaris OS CD/DVD."
Something strange is happening here. The CD iso image obviously
works
(since I can boot this far) and the boot messages include:
ISA-device: ecpp0
ecpp0 is /isa/[EMAIL PROTECTED],378
IDE device at targ 0, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
model Virtual HDD [0]
ATA/ATAPI-5 supported, majver 0x3e minver 0x15
ATAPI device at targ 1, lun 0 lastlun 0x0
model PRL CD-ROM [1]
ATA/ATAPI-4 supported, majver 0x1e minver 0x0
PCI-device: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ata0
ata0 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MultiwordDMA mode 2 selected
cmdk0 at ata0 target 0 lun 0
cmdk0 is /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0
But, although the CD-ROM is seen, above, it does *not* get any
device
node attached to it. There are, as far as I can see, no further
boot
messages related to disks, and if I drop to a shell I can see this
(partial) output from prtconf:
pci-ide, instance #0
ide, instance #0
cmdk, instance #0
ide (driver not attached)
This is as far as I've got so far, and this is where I'm hoping
someone
can help. I'm looking for pointers for what can cause the CDROM
to be
reported when ata0 is initialised, but then not see any device
show up
after that.
Any ideas?
For those following, I found it easiest (since you can't copy & paste
from
the console in Parallels) to set up a serial port to a unix-domain
socket,
and connect to it using "socat UNIX:/tmp/serial -,raw,echo=0", then boot
solaris using the "serial console" option in GRUB.
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