11-28-2009
Reboot loop
Oh, how I regret having chosen Solaris...
Really, when I had my last Solaris system ten years ago I was just happy. Like a tank: Slow, clumsy, ugly but rock-solid. Then there were 10 ten years of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Simple install, fast, nice, good package managing, just running along.
But now I had to find a new OS which supports our archiving software: Either some Linuxtoy or Solaris. Hey great I thought! Solaris rocks. Told my boss I need some new hardware because the fantastic Solaris OS does not work with any sideshow controller, no no, it needs the superdupermegafantastic hardware! So we bought two new Areca 1260 controllers, new disks and everything. Result:
It's saturday evening, 9pm and I have installed Solaris for around the 20th time now. I had to deal with:
- driver installation routine broken, needs manual fixing
- ZFS root filesystem crashes during the boot process (I think while loading the areca driver) and reboots over and over
- installation routine interrupts to shell in the middle of the installation, depending on the amount of odd numbers in the current time or temperature in the room
- boot block does not get installed
- panics because if the /-filesystem being to big.
Ok folks, have I gone moron-mode or what's this about?
All I want to do is to install the OS on a ZFS filesystem. But seems it can't be done? At least not by me!
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
suninstall
suninstall(1M) System Administration Commands suninstall(1M)
NAME
suninstall - install the Solaris operating system
SYNOPSIS
suninstall
DESCRIPTION
install-solaris(1M) is now the preferred command for starting and restarting the Solaris Installation program. It should be used instead of
suninstall. suninstall is symbolically linked to install-solaris.
suninstall is a forms-based and graphical subsystem for installing the operating system.
suninstall exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should only be invoked from there. Refer to the Solaris 10 Instal-
lation Guide: Basic Installations for more details.
suninstall allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. suninstall loads the software available on the installa-
tion media. Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for disk space requirements.
USAGE
Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for more information on the various menus and selections.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcdrom (Solaris instal- |
| |lation media) |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
pkginfo(1), install(1M), install-solaris(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)
Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations
NOTES
It is advisable to exit suninstall by means of the exit options in the suninstall menus.
SunOS 5.10 9 Sep 2004 suninstall(1M)