Sherry Moore wrote:
I'd like to propose a project to enable and enhance Solaris support for
shipping and future Intel processors and platforms.
+1
As we are all aware of, Sun and Intel have formed an alliance to make
Solaris the Unix operating system of choice on Intel platforms. We
p.s.: Is SUNW interested in GRUB2 on sparc? We finally could boot from
USB mass storage then.
The idea that GRUB or GRUB2 has anything to do with what devices a
system can or can not boot from is mostly a miss-conception.
A number of amd64/legacy-x86 systems have BIOSs that can talk to and
Quick questions since I haven't had time to setup the environment to
play with your patches yet. Did you see any disks, or can't you type
anything yet ?
Hmm, the Intel ICH7 chipset in the Intel iMac seems to suffer from the
cntrl sharing DMA engine between channels problem, so that
I've managed to install Solaris on an iMac with the bootcamp bits.
The most significant hurdles were conquered when Juergen Keil enabled
both multiboot and GRUB to work in a i8042 free system. That work is
covered by:
6412224 GRUB hangs when no i8042 is present
6412226
Reading from the HDD is killing GUI performance on
the iMac, it seems...
There's an (supposedly dangerously) hacked ata
driver floating around
hat makes this work OK. Please contact me off-line if
you'd like a
copy of it. The bug that covers this is:
5031379
To, as promised follow up on my own message:
The next hurdle is that the Solaris fdisk doesn't interact all that
well with the bootcamp prepared disk. I hacked around this by hand
and am still gathering information to file the appropriate bug
(with workaround). I'll follow up when the
You'll want to take a look at the driver.conf(4) man page and
translate all the bits of information you previously decorated the
node with via boot.rc into your .conf file.
So, something like:
name=ipmi_lpc parent=/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 device-type=pci
unit-address=1f ...
You'll also need
Jan Setje-Eilers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For what it's worth, I hacked away at the nevada build 22 miniroot
and was able to install a 128Mb system. Here are the details:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/setje?entry=post_new_boot_solaris_on
In that blog, you mention
For what it's worth, I hacked away at the nevada build 22 miniroot
and was able to install a 128Mb system. Here are the details:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/setje?entry=post_new_boot_solaris_on
You can probably gain a little more by not using a logging ufs filesystem
for the
For what it's worth, I hacked away at the nevada build 22 miniroot
and was able to install a 128Mb system. Here are the details:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/setje?entry=post_new_boot_solaris_on
-jan
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