Aubrey, Your suggestion of disabling the DMA of the atapi device worked.
Jurgen: I was attempting to do a fresh install on a Dell Poweredge 2650. So the only workaround I tried was disabling the Second processor through the grub debug console (which ultimately did not work). However: "But the alternate workaround (remove/rename the /platform/i86pc/ucode directory, without setting use_mp/W0) still results in these ata timeout errors?" Did not attempt this because I was booting from the live cd installation and did not have an already installed base system to work from. Once the install of Opensolaris was complete, I had to manually add the -B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0 to go further on the boot process. I'll need to now add the option to GRUB whenever booting the machine to get OpenSolaris to startup. Thanks again! On Fri, May 16, 2008 7:21 am, Aubrey Li wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Tanniel Simonian > <simonian at library.ucr.edu> wrote: >> >> Unfortunately the alternative work around did not work. >> >> Still getting the: >> >> WARNING: Ignoring false simplex bit. >> >> WARNING: Ignoring false simplex bit. >> >> WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at f,1/ide at 0 (ata0): >> timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0 >> WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at f,1/ide at 0 (ata0): >> timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0 >> WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at f,1/ide at 0 (ata0): >> timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0 >> WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at f,1/ide at 0 (ata0): >> timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0 >> >> On my initial email I had duplicated first two lines, without acknowledging >> the other 3 warning having a different timeout error message. >> >> Would it be easier to remove one of the CPUs and try the install then? >> Or is this a lost cause? >> >> Thanks for the help thus far. >> > > Try to add the following option to your grub: > > -B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0 > > Thanks, > -Aubrey > >
