Re: Problem in installing Solaris(Intel) 8.0 on pentium pc

From: Juergen Keil (jk_at_tools.de)
Date: 08/01/03 

Date: 01 Aug 2003 20:46:15 +0200

sowmya70@rediffmail.com (soundarya) writes:

> once I select the
> method(Interactive) starts to read the boot path as
> /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@1/sd@0,0:a and boot aurgment as :
> kernel/unix and again reboots the machine.
 
> I am unable to understand this peculiar problem of rebooting, I am
> using my PC Intel Pentium PIV 2.4Ghz

Probably your Solaris 8 x86 release does not yet support the P4 cpu.

You need Solaris 8 x86 7/2001 or newer.

(or try <URL:http://www.zvenigorod.ru/solaris8x86/p4trick.htm> )