Errors after install of 11/06
Hello,
I seem to have Solaris 11/06 (from DVD media) successfully installed on my new Dell Inspiron 530 (dual boot with XP). I was really looking forward to finally having Solaris at home since I am a Junior Solaris admin at work. I'm sure having problems getting access to the CDE though. I think it must be due to hardware incompatibilities - though not sure if that is the main issue. I've never had such a frustrating problem with Solaris on a sparc system before, so hopefully I'll get some support here.
After the grub menu, and selecting 'Solaris', it takes about 3 minutes to get to a command line. I get a few errors at that time, such as:
file in / differ from the boot archive: /etc/path_to_inst
cannot find /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache: no such file
I tried running 'svcadm clear system/boot-archive' and it seems to attempt to go into the CDE, but I just get unintelligible multi-colored display, and need to power off.
Running the Hardware compatibility test came up with the following:
No Solaris Driver
No Solaris Driver
Communication
Conexant
HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
No Solaris Driver
No Solaris Driver
Network
Intel Corporation
82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
No Solaris Driver
No Solaris Driver
Multimedia
Intel Corporation
HD Audio Controller
1)Can I just disable the Modem and the HD audio in the windows device manager to get around these two (did this already)?
For the network card driver there is a Sun doc that says the workaround is to run: update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,1064"' iprb
The problem with this is, I get "read-only file system" when I run this command or try to edit any file for that matter. Seems I'm stuck in maintenance mode? I can list the output svcs -xv if that would help?
I've already tried a reinstall of 11/06 over again and get the same results. When installing I followed the example here http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5137822 , but did not get rid of Dell's Diagnostic Partition & System Recovery Partition, since a) I'm not sure if its required(?) and wanted to preserve my currents windows env., b) I used a different method to create a 20Gb linux-swap partition. (http://frsun.downloads.edgesuite.net/sun/07C00892/index.html)
During install, I did have to specify "acpi-user-options=8" if that helps.
I appreciate any advice.
Thanks, Mark