Re: Solaris 10 installation failure on 280R with ZFS
- From: D G Teed <donald.teed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:39:49 -0400
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:26 AM, D G Teed <donald.teed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This install problem has been reproducible. The hardware previouslyI didn't think this was going to help, but I went through all of the prompts
running Solaris 9 in a production role with Oracle 9ias (very recently)
without incident. On a test 280R prior to this, I did not have an issue
installing Solaris 10 with the same options.
I install Solaris 10 U7 sparc from cdrom. Booted with "boot cdrom - text"
I elect full install without OEM support onto mirrored ZFS disks, with
3 GB for dump and swap. The install proceeds normally - I get an X
display during the install fine. After cdrom 1 is finished,
it reboots to the disk and continues the install, running an X GUI.
I go through cdroms 2 thru 5, and one language disc.
At the end, it shows the GUI dialog with "Reboot Now". This button does
not work.
It does not dismiss, nor take any actions. I use reboot from the terminal
window - it shows
the final actions in reference to /a (dissappeared too quickly to note), I
see sync disks message appear, and then it reboots.
On boot up, things start off well, until I see the complaint that the Gnome
window manager cannot start. Then I see this:
SUNW-MSG-ID: PCIEX-8000-5Y, TYPE: Fault, VER:1, SEVERITY: Major
EVENT-TIME: Thu Nov 12 09:20:59 AST 2009
PLATFORM: SUNW, Sun-Fire-280R, CSN: -, HOSTNAME: nash
SOURCE: eft, REV: 1.16
EVENT-ID: 1ba6e4a0-a839-e930-b2a2-e8fbd8da5d8f
DESC: The transmitting device sent an invalid request
Refer to http://sun.com/msg/PCIEX-8000-5Y for more information
AUTO-RESPONSE: One or more device instances may be disabled
Following this, I see the prompts to select media source as it wants
Solaris Software 2. It is as if this was the first reboot with the
installer.
Unlike the first reboot with the installer, X isn't running,
and there is the fault message above.
If I attempt install again from "boot cdrom - text" I do not see the fault,
the X display starts without error, etc. But again the "Reboot Now"
dialog does not work, and if I use the reboot command line, all of
the above failures will reoccur.
The earliest fault is the end of the install with the non-functioning
Reboot Now. Perhaps there is something left undone by the installer
and it triggers the problems.
--Donald
for media with Skip as my option. At the end I did a reboot command, and
now the system comes up without faults, there is no problem starting
the window manager, and I'm running patch updates with no issues.
I'll keep in mind there might be hardware issues with this system.
It seems to be important to look at dmesg output from the terminal
by the end of the install, before rebooting, so any service or device
faults will be known of.
--Donald
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