Hi jabrewer, thanks for the note. Well, the IDE config in the BIOS is fairly limited. Basically it can either be "Primary" or "Disabled" :-) I guess worst case, I could try no CD/DVD-ROM at all and do a pxe boot install.
re: older HDD, the one I'm using is a standard IDE Seagate that's a few years old (there is a separate SATA interface on the board) but I get the failure even with the HDD completely removed. as for the older CD-ROM drive I tried, it's from 2001 :-) The annoying thing is, I installed Debian 4.0r1 without a hitch from a CD-ROM. And while I respect Debian, I really don't want to run it on this box ;-) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
