Good day,
Let me start with my system. Its an acer laptop with the GM965 chipset. I am
aware of the release notes page and the section titles "Install Causes Panics
on Intel 965 With GM965 Chipset"
I'm not sure what is the correct way to get the system up and running. Right
now, my system is switching between a terminal window and a watch icon that
looks like X is trying to start.
Here is what I tried.
I started from the live cd and selected the terminal window. I did the section
to use the vesa driver instead of the intel driver.
I then started gdm and got the wireless working. I installed the system.
As soon as I had the system running from the harddrive, I updated the files per
the release notes:
pfexec pkg refresh
$ pfexec pkg install SUNWipkg at 0.5.11-0.86
$ pfexec pkg install entire at 0.5.11-0.86
I then tried to update grub via this command (again, on the release notes)
pfexec /mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /mnt
but I got this message: can't get real path of
''/mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub''"
I googled it, and found this blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/richb/entry/the_power_of_pkg_image
and ran this set of instructions:
$ $ su
Password:
# beadm mount opensolaris-1 /mnt
# pfexec /mnt/boot/solaris/bin/update_grub -R /mnt
Creating GRUB menu in /mnt
Installing grub on /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s0
stage1 written to partition 0 sector 0 (abs 16065)
stage2 written to partition 0, 265 sectors starting at 50 (abs 16115)
and got similar output, so i figured I was good to go. (Note, this was the
first reboot.)
Now when I start the system, I have three entries in grub:
2008.05 snv_86_rc3 X86
opensolaris-1
Soarlis 2008.11 snv_94 X86
The only one that seems to work is 2008.05 snv_86_rc3, and I think this is due
to ZFS (thanks to the powers that be for ZFS.)
One more thing, when I load up _rc3 X86 and I look at my xorg.conf, it has
Driver "intel". So, I changed that back to vesa thinking maybe its a driver
issue. But the system is still doing the funky thing... so I don't think thats
it.
Questions:
Do I have a current release or is rc3 a release candidate? I'll download a new
copy if I need to, but not sure thats the problem.
Am I doing something out of order that is making this fail?
Do I need to start from scratch, or can I recover someway?
Thank you for your help, and for reading my post.
Matt
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