Hi Dave, Thanks for your advice. I edited the GRUB config for 2008.5, replacing 'ISADIR with amd64 as you suggested. It got me a little further but OpenSolaris still failed to boot.
I just gave b93 a go - this was more successful, but the LiveDVD has exited at the point just after 'Reading ZFS Config: done'. The error message given is 'ERROR: Cannot find Java software, Exiting to shell'. It then drops me back into a shell, with no obvious way of resuming the installation. Any ideas? -- Graeme West Web Services Development Architect Spoken Word Services Glasgow Caledonian University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel: (+44) 0141 331 8544 Project web site: http://www.spokenword.ac.uk/ On 4 Aug 2008, at 18:14, Dave Miner wrote: Graeme West wrote: Hi there, I've been attempting to install OpenSolaris 2008.5 as a fully virtualised guest on a CentOS 5.2 Xen host. When I boot the OpenSolaris DomU for the first time, I get the blue screen allowing me to pick either the OpenSolaris installer or the text mode installer, but after that the installation hangs. It gets as far as: SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_86 32-bit Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Hostname: opensolaris Remounting root read/write Probing for device nodes... I'm using the GUI guest OS installer in virt-manager. Here is my setup for the VM: Mode: Full virtualisation (64-bit) Disk: 32GB flat file RAM: 2GB Start-up RAM: 2GB VCPUs: 8 (the machine has 8 real CPUs) OS install image: os200805.iso I suspect that this could be something to do with the OpenSolaris installer starting in 32-bit mode. I didn't get the option to pick between 32 and 64 bit modes for the VM when running through the install setup. Is this the problem, and is there a way to force OpenSolaris to start the install CD in 64-bit mode? This should just work, bug 315 (defect.opensolaris.org) was fixed precisely to support running as a domU, but perhaps there's something different with the CentOS host implementation that reflects a different device setup. The live CD boot is set up to automatically select 64-bit if the platform reports that it is 64-bit capable. You can try to force it by editing the GRUB entries (replace $ISADIR with amd64) but that's likely to fail if GRUB's auto-detection of the platform didn't work. You could also try the build 93 development ISO as OS changes since 2008.05 may allow it to just work. Filing a bug at defect.opensolaris.org (distribution/opensolaris/livecd) would be helpful. Dave Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems<http://www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems> Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474
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