Hi All ,
I am new to solaris & i would like to explore it to taste a flavour of
Unix.
Before I installed I did a lot of googling as I did not want to play
with the data i have on win XP & finally installed Solaris in a dual
mode option along with Win XP.
These are the steps i followed,
1) Using partition magic, I created 20 GB free space in my Win Xp
SP2 running on NTFS system.Made that 20 GB partition as
Primary.The C:\ having Win XP is set as Primary (Active).
2) Rebooted the system with Solaris DVD inside the
drive.Successfully followed Sun's docs for installation.
3)Identified the 20GB partition ,F-Disk first asked me to delete it &
then re create it again.
4)The 20 GB got formatted & then the Solaris OS got installed
100%.
Finally It rebooted.I took out the DVD from the drive.
5) I was happy to see the Grub bootloader recognising both Solaris
and also Windows.
6)Anxiously I selected Windows to see whether everything is fine.I
was happy that nothing got affected in Win XP.
7)Rebooted the comp again.Now selected Solaris x86 ( 1st option ).
8) Unfortunately after some initial startup commands I got the foll
messg
"An out of Sync boot archieve was detected on
/dev/dsk/c1doso.Do you wish to automatically Update this boot
archive" ?
For this i followed this doc from Sun,
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
a=view#gcbof
I followed it successfully but still it didnt help me.It works till step
6 on the above sun doc link provided.
It searches for "installed OS instances.........." & then begins to give
a series of commands ,then came the console log in session &
then it automatically tried to boot up the Solaris OS.
A series of dots( ............... ) followed giving the impression that the
kernel is going to load, but after a few secs it just gives out an
impression like its frozen (hanged up).A series of multi coloured
pink stripes appears on top of monitor & there after nothing
happens.........
Before the installation was about to begin I just left all those
screens where it asked for slice,root,extended home etc to the
default values as suggested by the OS.Also i also came across
screens such as Xorg for which i didnt change anything and jus
kept accepting the choice given by the OS.I also followed the
installation link below as it is,
howto.jsp
What 's the mistake i do here ?????
Do i have to log into windows Xp & then using Partition Magic,
Should I also make the partition where Solaris is installed as
Primary ( ACTIVE PARTITION ) .Is this possible?
I also followed the below given links,
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
a=view#gcbof
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
a=view
But it didnt fix my problem.The docs helped me to know some of
the tech things about solaris which is good but right now my
concern is I want to look at the screen of this wonderful OS & I
would like to fix the problem without tampering my Win Xp
which by God's grace seems not disturbed by this installation
process till now.
Are there any special commands i need to enter to modify any
value ??? . If so I can try them with some help......
Am not very familiar with such commands & also under
this Solaris console environment.
So plz provide me step by step assistance so that this helps to fix
my issue.
Any help is greatly Appreciated.
Thanx & Regards.