[osol-help] Live CD issues

2009-10-10 Thread krisw
the problem with solaris is there is no support and its very complicated - you can pick up things here n there but in my experience all my data is on it and nobody can help me get it off there. you surely dont want to get into that situation. ive been on this forum a month and nobody can figure

[osol-help] zfs corrupts grub

2009-10-03 Thread krisw
boot it up from a livecd and look at teh grub file and reinstall it if needed. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] migrate solaris zfs to freebsd zfs

2009-10-03 Thread krisw
anyone figured this out ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] migrate solaris zfs to freebsd zfs

2009-10-01 Thread krisw
http://code.google.com/p/solaris-parted/ theres this but it doesnt mention anything zfs. the freebsd (7.2) i have is v13 - the same as my solaris install - took me a while to sort that out but on a 'zfs import' i get a GPT table corrupt message. open solaris doesnt work on my computer even tho

[osol-help] migrate solaris zfs to freebsd zfs

2009-09-30 Thread krisw
yup checked that out already with freenas only zfs v6 there - im running v13 on the solaris machine so i went to freebsd 7.2 in order to do that but it doesnt like it. im wondering if this new parted solaris thing might do it ? or perhaps a utility in freebsd ? -- This message posted from opens

[osol-help] Live CD not booting

2009-09-30 Thread krisw
yup checked that out already with freenas only zfs v6 there - im running v13 on the solaris machine so i went to freebsd 7.2 in order to do that but it doesnt like it. im wondering if this new parted solaris thing might do it ? or perhaps a utility in freebsd ? -- This message posted from opens

[osol-help] migrate solaris zfs to freebsd zfs

2009-09-29 Thread krisw
if you pass the whole disk to zfs in solaris im told thats the right way to do it. but. apparetly freebsd doesnt like this and complains about corrupt GPT tables. how can i migrate a disk over without copying the whole lot off ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Loud screaming noise while booting LiveCD

2009-09-29 Thread krisw
that loud noise when you put a mic in front of speakers is called feedback and its very beautiful. anyway - did you try another cd player and burn another cd ? just an idea. is it the speakers making the noise or the motherboard ? my system did that a few times - it was the processor temperature

[osol-help] Live CD not booting

2009-09-29 Thread krisw
a good start might be this turn off everything that can be turned off in the bios. lan, onboard audio, acpi, serial ports, everything you can find except the power :) then remove everything from the machine that could be suspect. replace memory or take the sticks out one by one and replace with

[osol-help] Live CD not booting

2009-09-29 Thread krisw
did you try an older one as well ? did you do a md5sum check of the disk just in case. ive seen a lot of people on google going on about weird errors and then reburning the cd and everything works. i know it sounds mad but true :) i have the same problem but on a completely different machine. as y

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-29 Thread krisw
did you try an older one as well ? did you do a md5sum check of the disk just in case. ive seen a lot of people on google going on about weird errors and then reburning the cd and everything works. i know it sounds mad but true :) i have the same problem but on a completely different machine. as

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-28 Thread krisw
heh that gave me a chuckle... youre right there the chip ran super hot for no apparent reason... thats why the power supply went. mebbe something else went. how would every other linux and windows thing work on it though? puzzling me. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-28 Thread krisw
it ran solaris for about 6 months 2008.11 fine not a glitch. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-28 Thread krisw
its a pentium D 3g -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-27 Thread krisw
i dont know whether i made it clear but im not really up on solaris i only use it for zfs file sharing. heres the output you wanted, took me a while to get it because in this half crashed maintenance mode lots of stuff doesnt seem to work - ie i couldnt mount a usb disk to put the files on so i

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-27 Thread krisw
why is it every time i post nobody ever knows my problem ? is it the way ive put it or something ? :-/ friends production machine broke on the update as well. looks like they got a lot of work to do in support and programming. good luck. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-24 Thread krisw
update - tried PULSA as well some kind of media server opensolaris errored on cryptoadm start failed with exit status 2 and some other crypto DSS errors. thanks for any help... my big question is why does it not work ONLY on opensolaris kernels ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-24 Thread krisw
well. i tried FREENAS and that seemed to work as well, if it reads my disks i will dump the idea of using opensolaris - way too buggy. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Live CD wont boot

2009-09-23 Thread krisw
hi ive got a: Pentium D Dual Core 3Gzh | 1 gig ram | 775XFire-eSATA2 BIOS 1.20 I used to have solaris on it but the power supply blew. i replaced the power supply but when i rebooted it the hard disk wouldnt boot the main option. so i tried the previous kernel save and that was ok but after a f