[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?
Mark Cave-Ayland
mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Sat Apr 23 15:55:19 CEST 2011
On 22/04/11 20:58, Nick Couchman wrote:
> Thanks, again, Mark - this is fantastic!
>
> After booting the install successfully from the Solaris ISO/CDROM and
> getting through the initial configuration (on both Solaris 8 and 9), the
> install fails trying to label the hard drive. First, I see the
> following during the installer boot:
>
> WARNING: /iommu at 0,10000000/sbus at 0,10001000/espdma at 5,8400000/esp at 5,8800000/sd at 0,0 (sd0):
> corrupt label - wrong magic number
>
>
> Then, after doing the system identification, I get the following:
>
> One or more disks are found, but one of the
> following problems exists:
>
> > Hardware failure
>
> > Unformatted disk.
>
> At which point I get dropped to a shell. If I try to use the format
> command from the shell, format cannot auto-configure the disk. Even if
> I try manually setting C/H/S parameters (either at qemu run time or in
> the format command), it does not seem to want to use the disk. This
> seems to happen whether I'm using an LVM volume or a file-based disk.
> Also, seems as though all changes are lost on the disk when I exit
> format and then immediately go back in.
>
> Ideas? Any further help/input/debugging I could provide?
Hi Nick,
Thanks again for testing this. The issue with Solaris not detecting the
disks is a known one - the following guide should point you in the right
direction:
http://virtuallyfun.blogspot.com/2010/10/formatting-disks-for-solaris.html
Also don't forget the "set scsi_options" part from Artyom's SPARC/QEMU
howto here: http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/12/solaris-under-qemu-how-to.html
I think it may actually be possible to come up with a patch for OpenBIOS
so that the scsi_options change isn't required - let me know how you get
on with the above links, and if it all seems to work I'll look at
creating the patch for you.
ATB,
Mark.
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