So I downloaded the CD and installed it perfectly on a VMware guest; I got the live CD mode and then I clicked on the install icon and everything just worked. Then I tried to install natively on an Acer AM5640 PC. The CD booted as expected but instead of going into the live CD GUI then I get the following text output:
SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_101b 64-bit Copyright blah Use is subject blah Hostname: opensolaris Remounting root read/write Probing for device nodes ... Preparing live image for use Requesting System Maintenance Mode (See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.) Console login service(s) cannot run Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): If I press ctrl-d then it just goes back to the 'Requesting System Maintenance Mode' and asks for the user name again. If I enter user name 'root' password 'root' then I can login but what now? It says: single-user privilge assigned to root on /dev/console. Entering System Maintenance Mode Mar 16 12:54:54 su: 'su root' succeeded for root on /dev/console -bash: /usr/sbin/quota: No such file or directory Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_101b November 2008 -bash: /bin/mail: No such file or directory -bash: /usr/bin/hostname: No such file or directory root@:~# What now? If I try and 'cat' the file /lib/svc/share/README then there is no way to page through it (less etc is not available) and therefore I can only read the very end of the file which seems to be unhelpful regarding my install problems... :-( Why is the live CD not booting into its GUI? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
