Solaris 10 on PowerEdge 2400 Installation Help 1

[artfulbodger]

Hello everyone...

Hopefully someone can help me out here. I am attempting to install Solaris 10 on a Dell PowerEdge 2400. The problem that I am running into is that after a "successful" install (from what the log file says), the system will not boot. Basically it seems that the boot loader dosen't get executed and on this particular system it just keeps retrying the PXE boot.

When I do an install, everything seems perfect. It find the drives, says it copies the files and even the log file prior to reboot says everything was successful. If I reattempt to install after that, the installer finds the first installation and asks me if I want to upgrade. It is when I try to boot without the Boot CD that it all starts to fail.

I have heard that there may be problems with ACPI on this model Dell and Solaris 10 and to instruct the kernel to ignore ACPI by adding in the "acpi-user-options = 0x2" in the properties.

I have turned off USB (pretty much the only option in the Dell Bios - nothing for ACPI). I am at a loss here - anyone have any ideas?

I really don't want to run RedHat.....

Thanks in advance.

 

[artfulbodger]

I think I figured this one out. After about 3 days of testing different solutions, I think I may have come up with the solution.

On the Dell PowerEdge 2400 or 2450, once you have the OS installed, you must go back into the BIOS setup <F2> and change the boot order to "Hard Disk Only."

If you do that, it will force the Solaris boot loader to boot off the drive and everything will function as normal.