I doubt anyone here has tried, but I can't seem to do it. It's weird, since my Mac will boot into Windows and Linux natively but it seems to always hang somewhere when trying to run Solaris.

What Mac, specifically, and what is the error?

Regardless of the answer, I don't think any Apple systems are Solaris certified.

http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/tech...1ga/index.html

I don't really get an error message, but it either doesn't recognize the burned CD image as a bootable volume, or if it does, it just ends up hanging at some point.

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013). but the internal screen is broken and I'm just using it as a desktop right now -- that might be part of the problem. I bought a replacement screen, they're pretty easy to replace (I've done it before), but I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

You might want to boot Solaris with the verbose and kernel debugger enabled:

Edit the "boot" command line in GRUB and add the "-kv -m verbose" options

I'll try that, but I think the GRUB EFI booter on the CD is not Mac-compatible. So, I'm thinking of trying to build my own install disk with an EFI boot loader that is compatible with Mac (likely just another form of GRUB).

I dragged out my old big aluminum Mac Pro and tried to put it back together. I had it very customized, then my RAID card died and left the computer totally screwed up inside with cables not connected in the factory state.

Anyway, I got it to boot the Solaris install disk, but then it immediately said "No suitable nodes found." and hung.

Does anyone know what that means?

Thanks!

That means the kernel is unable to identify the required hardware for the boot sequence to complete. The hardware is represented as a hierarchical tree with node associated with a driver. See https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01...ml#kernelovr-8

Either something is missing or the hardware is not recognized/supported.

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Thanks, that's pretty much what I figured, but a node for what. It showed that error immediately after loading from the DVD, so would it be looking for a hard drive that quickly? Or is it something else? Would maybe attaching a USB hard drive help? It can obviously read the USB DVD/Blu-Ray drive.

That's actually not that obvious. The fact the bootloader (GRUB) is able to read the USB drive doesn't mean the Solaris kernel can do it too. They are unrelated programs.

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I've gone NATIVE!!!

I'm running Solaris 11.3 now on a Mac Pro 3,1 (Early 2008). I have to boot with the BIOS emulator not native EFI, but it's still far better than running in a VM. It's like I have my Sun back (it got destroyed in an unfortunate drink spill), but this is much more powerful anyway.

This is weird, I'm running Firefox on a Mac Pro running Solaris but with the Windows redirected to my MacBook Pro running MacOS with Quartz X!

So now i'm just posting from Safari running natively on my MacBook Pro...

Tomorrow comes ORACLE!

I hit a bit of a bump, I have start up from the DVD then tell GRUB to boot from the hard drive whenever I power off or switch back into booting Mac OS. Not a big deal, but if anyone has a solution, I'd be grateful...

Since a lot of people are discussing Grub, I thought I'd give this a bit of a bump

My problem is that I have Solaris 11.3 installed fine on my Mac Pro version 3,1 but in order to boot it into Solaris, I have to boot from the Solaris Text DVD install disc, then choose boot from hard drive from the Grub menu I get, then (after a while) get another Grub menu to choose what I want to really boot. It's not that much of a problem since Solaris doesn't have to be rebooted often, but it'd be nice to have it boot just from the hard drive directly.