Unable to install Solaris Express Community Edition

I have had a certain amount of success installing opensolaris and then solaris 10. Ultimately through the advice of LQ members I choose to install the Solaris Community Express Edition.

It fails miserably by looping displaying the following message...

WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: abort request, target=1 lun=0 WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: abort device, target=1 lun=0 WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: reset target, target=1 lun=0 WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: reset bus, target=1 lun=0 WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0 (ata0): timeout: early timeout, target=1 lun=0 WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0 (Disk1): Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: Informational Sense Key: aborted command Vendor 'Gen-ATA ' error code: 0x3

It first of all loops a couple of times and then I can choose which console to start...then it loops again with the same message...

Before coming up with the message

Using install cd in /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0
Using RPC for network configuration parameters

The install then breaks into a never ending loop displaying the above WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0 (Disk1): message and its follow ons continuously.

Now when I had Solaris 10 installed during normal boot, this message was displayed on the console, but the boot sequence continued.

Anyone seen this before and what does it mean. Does the installation process not like the fact that I have a NTFS partition on the first disk.

Yes, I saw this during the installation of Solaris 10 u5. In that case, the boot continues although the machine appears sloppy in that phase. It's the regression of bug 6536722 (ata interrupt sharing can panic).

Unfortunately, if you look at the bug description page, the only known workaround seems to be this:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.j...58768&tstart=0
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatab...bug_id=6536722

Hope this helps,
Enrico.

Originally Posted by crisostomo_enrico Yes, I saw this during the installation of Solaris 10 u5. In that case, the boot continues although the machine appears sloppy in that phase. It's the regression of bug 6536722 (ata interrupt sharing can panic).

Thanks for that

Originally Posted by crisostomo_enrico Unfortunately, if you look at the bug description page, the only known workaround seems to be this: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.j...58768&tstart=0 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatab...bug_id=6536722 Hope this helps, Enrico.

Unfortunately this is happening at the start of the installation of the Solaris Community Express Edition. Ironically it never caused problems during the installation of either opensolaris or Solaris 10.

I have previously installed Solaris 10, which does not have a driver for my sound card.

Apparently opensolaris is not favoured by J2EE developers because of it's immaturity.

If this problem means that I am unable to install the Express edition, which the hardware detection tool says has a sound card driver for my hardware. then I am total sunk as far as getting a working Solaris system on my PC.

tamtam, I don't know because I didn't try it, but the first link I posted suggests a workaround which you should be able to perform at the grub menu, as soon as the installer starts. Have a try.

As far as it concerns Java SE/EE development, as we already discussed here in LQ, it depends both on needs and personal tastes. As I already stated, I (still) prefer Solaris 10 or Solaris Express Community Edition mainly because I'm using some packages from Sun which didn't even install on OpenSolaris (2008.05). I suppose the trend will change: Sun stated that OpenSolaris has replaced SXDE and it's a supported distribution, so this rough edges will disappear with time. If you have a spare box, keep on observing OpenSolaris evolution.

Bye,
Enrico.

Originally Posted by crisostomo_enrico tamtam, I don't know because I didn't try it, but the first link I posted suggests a workaround which you should be able to perform at the grub menu, as soon as the installer starts. Have a try.

No it don't work, everything I tried just has the same disappointing outcome. Loops continuously after some message about network configuration. How disappointing. How do you create a bug report, link please? If the community is aware of this bug then some easy code adjustment could be implemented to break out of the loop.

set network connection;

check something //what ever it is checking that causes WARNING prompt

   loop begin
     if check unsuccessful
       display WARNING
     else
       break out of loop
     timelapse
     check something again
     
   end loop

The message appears during the boot stage of Solaris 10, but only once the warning is shown, causing a time delay in booting. The system boot continues. Whatever the WARNING relates to does not effect the overall system it seems.

How do you create a bug report, link please? If the community is aware of this bug then some easy code adjustment could be implemented to break out of the loop.

Well, you could use the very same link I posted to add your commentary there. That's what I'do without duplicating the bug: your feedback would be precious there.

The message appears during the boot stage of Solaris 10, but only once the warning is shown, causing a time delay in booting. The system boot continues. Whatever the WARNING relates to does not effect the overall system it seems.

That's exactly what I say more than once. Unfortunately I didn't see it with SXCE, because I didn't install it on the machines affected by that bug. By the way, and it could be an impression, I left some affected machine with Solaris 10 u5 and sometimes the boot wouldn't continue, so I installed u4 and will wait for testing the next Solaris 10 update.

EDIT: I'm sorry, it seems I ran too much and the bug appears not to be writable. You can report your bugs here: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/