Problem in installing Solaris(Intel) 8.0 on pentium pc

[Juergen Keil]

[email]sowmya70@rediffmail.com[/email] (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> )

[soundarya]

Juergen Keil <jk@tools.de> wrote in message news:<wy3cgl5i88.fsf@tools.de>...

> [email]sowmya70@rediffmail.com[/email] (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> )

Hi Keil,

I got your reply for that installation of Solaris8 on Intel Pentium
IV. Thankyou very much. I have installed it successfully.I need one
more favour from you...

I have this BoxD845GVAD2 mother board which has this in-built VGA
Card. I have installed the software but when i boot the system, it
boots and then when it try to comes up ....it restarts again.

I belive it is non-suitability of VGA card or is there any way i can
set this up.


Please help me in this regard.


TIA
Sowmya

[Bob Palowoda]

[email]sowmya70@rediffmail.com[/email] (soundarya) wrote in message news:<1448344f.0308021047.68f33394@posting.google. com>...

> Juergen Keil <jk@tools.de> wrote in message news:<wy3cgl5i88.fsf@tools.de>...

> > [email]sowmya70@rediffmail.com[/email] (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> )

>
>
> Hi Keil,
>
> I got your reply for that installation of Solaris8 on Intel Pentium
> IV. Thankyou very much. I have installed it successfully.I need one
> more favour from you...
>
> I have this BoxD845GVAD2 mother board which has this in-built VGA
> Card. I have installed the software but when i boot the system, it
> boots and then when it try to comes up ....it restarts again.
>
> I belive it is non-suitability of VGA card or is there any way i can
> set this up.
>
>
> Please help me in this regard.
>
>
> TIA
> Sowmya

Not sure if Solaris 8 has the "vesa" selection in the kdmconfig you
might want to try that. You didn't mention which vidoe card you
have. Another option is upgrading to Solaris 9 and/or using the
latest Xfree86 video Solaris driver at mention at:

[url]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/49338[/url]

[url]http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/utah-glx/xfree430-sol9x86.tar.gz[/url]

---Bob