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@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@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.