It's almost impossible to install Solaris/OpenSolaris on Dell T7400!
807559Mar 17 2009 — edited Jun 8 2009For several days, I tried to install Solaris u5, u6 and OpenSolaris 2008.11 on Dell Precision T7400 workstation. But all failed to some extent. Solaris u6 and OpenSolaris 2008.11 can not be booted up with cdrom. The installation programe progressed to the boot banner and then the machine restarted. Well, Solaris u5 did a little better. It was installed on t7400 successfully. But it could not recognize the NIC(Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754). I downloaded the BCM5754 driver and installed it properly. But the driver failed to attach.
I have searched Solaris x86 HCL site. It says OpenSolaris 2008.11 plays well on Dell T7400. But now it looks inaccurate. Maybe what I can expect now is the next release of Solaris/OpenSolaris. Anybody has some advice? Thanks in advance!