Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-17 Thread James Carlson
Rich Reynolds writes: I had a similar problem on different hardware, and found that hand plumbing the interface and re-enable nwam served as a sufficient work around... svcadm clear nwam is the simpler work-around. The real problem here isn't nwam, but the device subsystem, which

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-17 Thread Rich Reynolds
no it was clear the problem was not nwam, but its maintainance state, was a good indicator as to the real problem... and as with many problems, a bigger hammer usually helps... thanx, rich James Carlson wrote: Rich Reynolds writes: I had a similar problem on different hardware, and found

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-16 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; trying to boot (or even install) a recent OpenSolaris build (off genunix.org) on an x4150 machine, but so far failed in a rather simple way: Booting up the machine using the live medium works well, but in the end, a text based console is all I eventually get on this machine, also no

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-16 Thread Martin Bochnig
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Kristian Rink kaw...@zimmer428.net wrote: Folks; trying to boot (or even install) a recent OpenSolaris build (off genunix.org) on an x4150 machine, but so far failed in a rather simple way: Booting up the machine using the live medium works well, but in the

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-16 Thread Kristian Rink
Hi Martin; and first off thanks a bunch for your hint. Martin Bochnig schrieb: [...] Hello, as far as I know Indiana still lacks a text/console mode installer. However, in case your box has whatever graphics card you can simply use the vesa driver (as replacement for a native driver, which

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-16 Thread Alexander Vlasov
Hello, this is known P2 bug, see http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6331 Actually nwam fails and machin doesn't boots up into normal state. Kristian Rink wrote: Folks; trying to boot (or even install) a recent OpenSolaris build (off genunix.org) on an x4150 machine, but so

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris install on x4150?

2009-02-16 Thread Rich Reynolds
Hi all - I had a similar problem on different hardware, and found that hand plumbing the interface and re-enable nwam served as a sufficient work around... hth, rich Alexander Vlasov wrote: Hello, this is known P2 bug, see http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6331 Actually