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Operating Systems Solaris new installation Solaris Post 302249373 by Landser on Tuesday 21st of October 2008 07:54:02 AM
Old 10-21-2008
new installation Solaris

hi guys

im totally new to Solaris - i can use it for some functions (like at work) but installing is a first for me - please dont flame if there are any stupid questions;

allright, my set up is a gigabyte motherboard which is supposed to work (BigAdmin - HCL: Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H )
4 GB RAM, a video card (ATI HD 4850), 4 SATA II discs & a SATA DVD ROM.

my first boot error was something like "lin 64 bit not supported" which was apparantly caused because i had the Raid controller set to "AHCI" in the BIOS. after i switched that to RAID i now have some kind of error on the CD ROM something like "bootp cd rom no memory" (cant see the exact message im at work now)

so my questions basically are:
1. i want to use ZFS - its the main reason i want to install solaris. to what should i set my BIOS: IDE or RAID?
2. does Solaris have known issues to boot from a SATA cdrom?
3. does there exist a "supreme idiots guide" to installing Soalris on x86 systems? (googles a lot but couild not find a guide that takes you through process with screenshots and all that)

thanks for your assistance
 

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AHCISATA(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 					       AHCISATA(4)

NAME
ahcisata -- AHCI 1.0 and 1.1 compliant SATA controllers driver SYNOPSIS
ahcisata* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000 DESCRIPTION
The ahcisata driver supports SATA controllers compliant with the Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface Revision 1.0 or 1.1 specifica- tion, and provides the interface to the hardware for the ata(4) driver. The ahcisata driver will only attach if the controller has been put in AHCI mode by the BIOS; if the controller is in pciide-compatible mode, it will be handled by the appropriate driver (piixide(4) for Intel AHCI controllers). SEE ALSO
ata(4), atapi(4), intro(4), pci(4), pciide(4), wd(4), wdc(4) Intel Corporation, Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), Revision 1.3, http://download.intel.com/technology/serialata/pdf/rev1_3.pdf, June 26, 2008. BUGS
Native Command Queuing is not yet supported. BSD
March 18, 2011 BSD
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