[geeks] OpenSolaris on T105

[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 9, 2008, at 10:43 , Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> From: Sevan / Venture37 <venture37 at hotmail.com>
>> Date: 2008/05/08 Thu AM 02:24:43 CDT
>> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [geeks] OpenSolaris on T105
>
>> Hi Guys
>> Have any of you managed to install any builds of OpenSolaris on a  
>> PowerEdge
>> T105 using a DVD??
>>> From the brief search around I've done it seems that OpenSolaris  
>>> doesn't like
>> the sata dvdrw drive in the system, which I presume leaves me with  
>> just doing
>> a netinstall?
>> So far I've tried b79 & b89 (I think) & both have bombed out on  
>> startup.
>
> When you say "doesn't like the sata drive" do you really mean the on- 
> board sata controller or the actual drive itself?

It's the controller, or rather the Solaris driver for it.

Solaris Nevada dropped support for SATA optical drives in the new  
nforce driver.

It's supposed to come back at some point, might already be there in  
the newest release.

Makes it a bitch to install on a T105.

Solaris 10 u5 works fine because it still has nforce SATA optical  
drive support.

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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com