Hi, After downloading the Sun LSI MegaRAID driver and putting it onto a floppy drive and then examing it. It appears that I can the PCI identifiers for the LSI...
Russell Aspinwall
russell.aspinwall@...
Oct 1, 2007 10:56 am
44197
Just posted a "cheat sheet" style blog that will help you setup a PXE bootable install server to load SXCE Build 72 (or later) in a ZFS bootable configuration....
Hi, I booted the computer and this time the display worked (it must have the LCD that caused the original display problems) and ran scanpci to get the...
Russell Aspinwall
russell.aspinwall@...
Oct 1, 2007 4:45 pm
44199
Hi Everyone, This is one of the most frustrating parts of Solaris... device identification. Solaris makes it sooooo hard to simply get a list of devices,...
When will we be able to build and manage ZFS (or SVM) volumes from the installation utility? This is another frustrating part of Solaris... having to go back...
Hi, I forgot the pkgmap file, so I modified the file size and checksum information and the driver install when running pkgadd -d . SUNWlsimega. The pkgmap map...
Russell Aspinwall
russell.aspinwall@...
Oct 2, 2007 6:26 am
44203
... It's much more than frustration - it's an actual data-corruption bug. If you do an install of Solaris over another version that was configured with SVM...
Timothy Prickett Morgan on Management's latest moves to jumpstart Sun's storage business: <URL:http://www.itjungle.com/bns/bns100107-story01.html> ... John ...
John D Groenveld
jdg117@...
Oct 2, 2007 1:54 pm
44205
... I do not know, but it should at least supersede it. Mike...
First, let me say that I am a huge Solaris fan. Have been for a long, long time. What has me frustrated is that while I know many of these answers, I am...
... I usually do 'ifconfig -a plumb' and then 'ifconfig -a' when faced with a machine on which I don't know the network driver names. -- -Alan Coopersmith-...
Alan & Geoff L., Thank you both for this simple fix. I had no idea I could use plumb without specifying the interface name. Funny how the obvious can hide so...
i use this command "/usr/X11/bin/scanpci /v" to see all devices and for netcard y look all entries or grep with net or something relationated with the net card...
maximatt
azamax@...
Oct 2, 2007 7:19 pm
44211
Hi, The modified SUNWlsimega driver allowed me the see a RAID5 disk with Solaris 10 8/07 and complete an install according the install.log. However, the system...
Russell Aspinwall
russell.aspinwall@...
Oct 2, 2007 8:00 pm
44212
... Use the -k switch to preload kmdb? Did you verify that the modified driver info is on your boot device? Mike...
Hi all, Solaris x86 3/05 (FCS) unpatched: After a reboot, my iprb0 network interface ends up with the same IP as the loopback interface, is marked down, has no...
The other tests Solaris was faster (CPU/Memory), but surprise to see that the thread test was slower on Solaris (greatly). Output below. and the Binaries used...
The thread locks were both 1 not 8 on the Linux as indicated, the results work either way though. Figured someone here could explain it ... Shared memory set...
Hi, I after modifying the postinstall file (to add the pci references for the MegaRAID 300-8X) and the pkgmap file to reflect the new size and checksum of the...
Russell Aspinwall
russell.aspinwall@...
Oct 3, 2007 5:56 am
44219
Hi, I have found the problem it was a typo :-[ when I modified the devicedb/master file the entry was echo 'pci1000,409 pci1000,409 msd pci none "Solaris(TM)...
Russell Aspinwall
russell.aspinwall@...
Oct 3, 2007 6:27 am
44220
Hi William, As Studio 12 is a free download, what difference does it make to the Solaris timings? ... -- Regards Russell Email: russell dot aspinwall at...
Russell Aspinwall
russell.aspinwall@...
Oct 3, 2007 7:13 am
44221
... Hi GCC is the 'native' Linux compiler, but not the native Solaris one. It would be interesting to see the same comparison done with Sun Studio 12 (on both...
hi group, I am having solaris 9 installed on one system , I want to take completed backup of its hdd so that incase of breakdown i should be able to restore...
Hi Sam, I have used the following method over the last number of years at home, put the computer into single user mode # shutdown -iS -g0 -y # ufsdump 0bf 126...
Russell Aspinwall
russell.aspinwall@...
Oct 3, 2007 10:17 am
44225
... Is is really "nscd"? If so, what does your /etc/nsswitch.conf contain?...
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