On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Simon <simo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Martin Bochnig <mar...@martux.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Simon Hardy-Francis <simo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> 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? >> >> >> Because /usr could not get mounted via SMF (from the compressed lofi). >> This can have several potential reasons. I need to know where it >> happened, if the CD could be found and identified via its volid. >> To help you, plese save /var/adm/messages* to floppy or usb stick, and > > ls -al /var/adm/ shows no message* files or folders :-( > >> then transfer it to a box where you can post it. >> It will be interesting and maybe you found a bug and can make other >> users' life easier as well. Also post "svcs -xv". And then manually go > > I can't find 'svcs' in /bin/, /sbin/, /usr/bin/, or /usr/sbin/ ... > where should it be? The closest I get is something called /bin/svcprop > :-( > >> to /lib/svc/method and run those scripts which have the substring >> "live" in them (if they still exist as separate files in 2008.11). > > So I find the following: > - live-a11y > - ./live-a11y[42]: /usr/bin/cut: not found [No such file or directory] > - ./live-a11y: line 42: /usr/bin/prtconf: not found > - ./live-a11y: line 42: /usr/bin/sed: not found > - live-devices-local > - Configuring devices. > - ./live-devices-local: line 51: /usr/bin/awk: not found > - Mounting cdroms > - live-fs-root > - Remounting root read/write > - Probing for device nodes ... > - Preparing live image for use > - ** FATAL **: Unable to access media > - live-fs-usr > - live-io-tracing > - live-sysidtool-system > > I only ran the first three... I'm wondering whether there is just > something wrong with the CD since so many tools are unavailable. So > the .iso file downloaded originally worked successfully with VMware > but I didn't use a physical CD. I actually burnt two different CDs > using that .iso image; one at 40x speed and one at 4x speed when the > first one didn't boot into the live CD GUI. Both CDs lead to the same > result on the Acer PC :-( I guess I could try to install opensolaris > on VMware again but this time using one of the physical CDs...? > >> Otherwise those which have "fs" in them. Then find out which one >> fails. And that's what you should please post to list. > > There are 4 fs-* files: > - fs-local > - mount: Operation not applicable to FSType tmpfs > WARNING: /sbin/mountall -l failed: exit status 1 > - fs-minimal > - ERROR: failed to mount /tmp (see 'svcs -x' for details) > - ERROR: /sbin/mount -O -F tmpfs /tmp failed, err=1 > - mount: Operation not applicable to FSType tmpfs > - fs-root > - /fs-root[40]: /usr/bin/moe: not found (No such file or directory) > - /fs-root[134]: /usr/bin/uname: not found (No such file or directory) > - /fs-root[135]: /usr/bin/uname: not found (No such file or directory) > - fs-usr > - WARNING - /usr/sbin/fsck not found. Most likely the mount of /usr > failed or the /usr filesystem is badly damaged. > > So I'm confused how two burnt and validated CDs from a .iso which > worked on VMware can be causing such a problem... any ideas? Or more > commands to try :-) > > Thanks, > Simon > >> Thanks for taking the time to report. >> We get you through this. >> >> Regards, >> %martin
Okay. So I tried booting the physical CD from within VMware and to my surprise the live CD GUI came up. Allerdings this was not using the Acer CD drive. However, the Acer CD drive has not exhibited any problems with any other CD media... maybe next step is to install VMware on the Acer too? Any other ideas? Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
