Is the Solaris 10 update 6 SPARC DVD any good?

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While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, scrawled:
> Dave Uhring wrote:
> Isn't there anyone here who *bought* the DVD? Seems to me a critical
> data point.

According to the website, not available yet. And I'm not a
customer, so I can't smack my sales critter for one.

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Gary Mills writes:

>That's the usual problem, but not in this case. I burned the DVD the
>same way as I burned all the others. Only this one doesn't mount.
>Only this one causes `vold' to dump core. I gave up and loopback-
>mounted the ISO, but others report that the DVD can be mounted
>manually. When I intentionally put the ISO file inside a DVD, I could
>mount the DVD and see the single file.

Can you see where is core dumps? Sometimes, the algorithms which
try to determine which filesystem it is; and when the code for a
specific filesystem SEGV'ed, then you can never mount it with hsfs.

Have you tried "fstyp" on the CDROM or the ISO (mounted with lofi)

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In <4916db0c$0$184$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Casper H.S. Dik writes:

>Gary Mills writes:

>>That's the usual problem, but not in this case. I burned the DVD the
>>same way as I burned all the others. Only this one doesn't mount.
>>Only this one causes `vold' to dump core. I gave up and loopback-
>>mounted the ISO, but others report that the DVD can be mounted
>>manually. When I intentionally put the ISO file inside a DVD, I could
>>mount the DVD and see the single file.

>Can you see where is core dumps? Sometimes, the algorithms which
>try to determine which filesystem it is; and when the code for a
>specific filesystem SEGV'ed, then you can never mount it with hsfs.

This is on Solaris 10 5/08 SPARC:

# mdb /usr/sbin/vold /core
Loading modules: [ libsysevent.so.1 libnvpair.so.1 libc.so.1 ld.so.1 ]
> ::status
debugging core file of vold (32-bit) from S0106080020b3a84b
file: /usr/sbin/vold
initial argv: /usr/sbin/vold -f /etc/vold.conf
threading model: multi-threaded
status: process terminated by SIGSEGV (Segmentation Fault)
> ::stack
libc.so.1`strlen+0x18(408450a5, 0, 0, 9ffb0, 600, 180)
read_slices+0x114(9e8e0, b, 9fde0, feebfd34, 1, 5)
read_hsfs_partition+0x88(b, 46c00, 6d0000, 2c, 34400, 1010101)
read_partition+0x30(9e8e0, 341a4, 3, 34000, 34400, 9)
create_top_partition+0x140(73f98, 73fdc, 73f98, 9e8e0, ffffffff, b)
0x265e0(800032, feebff9c, c, 5aea0, 73f98, ffffffff)
create_medium+0x74(800032, feebff9c, 20, 32, 47800, c)
0x2232c(5c998, 0, 0, 800032, 20, 33000)
libc.so.1`_lwp_start(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
> ^D

>Have you tried "fstyp" on the CDROM or the ISO (mounted with lofi)

This is on Solaris 10 10/08 SPARC:

# lofiadm -a $PWD/sol-10-u6-ga1-sparc-dvd.iso
/dev/lofi/1
# fstyp /dev/lofi/1
hsfs
# lofiadm -d /dev/lofi/1

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Gary Mills wrote:
> I've burned both the SPARC and x86 DVD for Solaris 10 10/08. The x86
> DVD works fine, but I've had nothing but trouble with the SPARC DVD.
> It won't mount on either Solaris 10 SPARC or Solaris 9 SPARC. `vold'
> dumps core on Solaris 10. I burned on a burner that I trust and that
> I've used for other Solaris 10 SPARC releases. The SPARC ISO file
> works fine for Live Upgrade. Has anyone else found a way to make the
> DVD work?

the DVD works just fine. They only thing that does not work here is vold.
Once you disable vold you can mount the DVD manually without any problems.
You can also boot and install from the DVD without problems. But after
the install even vold on S10u6 fails to mount the DVD.

Sami

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Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
> Warren Snider writes:
>
>> Gary Mills wrote:
>>> I've burned both the SPARC and x86 DVD for Solaris 10 10/08. The x86
>>> DVD works fine, but I've had nothing but trouble with the SPARC DVD.
>>> It won't mount on either Solaris 10 SPARC or Solaris 9 SPARC. `vold'
>>> dumps core on Solaris 10. I burned on a burner that I trust and that
>>> I've used for other Solaris 10 SPARC releases. The SPARC ISO file
>>> works fine for Live Upgrade. Has anyone else found a way to make the
>>> DVD work?
>>>
>>>
>> I have run into the same problem. I have a Ultra45. I have even started
>> a support case. I can manually mount the DVD or use lofiadm to mount the
>> ISO image. I find 2 things very interesting about SUN providing an ISO
>> image that when burned to a DVD:
>
>> 1) the DVD can't be auto mounted.
>> 2) the DVD is supposed to be an OS install image, but I can't do a 'boot
>> cdrom' to install the new OS.
>
>> Makes you wonder what is going on at SUN.
>
> How did you burn the image?
>
> It seems that you have put the .iso file inside a different filesystem.
>
> You need to burn it "as an images".
>
>
> Casper

Here's one for you.. Burned the DVD ISO under Vista using Nero's "burn
image" option. Attempting to boot the DVD on an Ultra 10 which has a
Memorex CD/DVD drive, boot fails as follows:

Can't read disk label
Can't read disk label package

Can't open boot device

Now.. using the exact same burn environment, I burned the 5 CD-ROM
images. I am able to boot the sparc with Disc #1 and proceed with the
installation.

Also for sanity's sake, I using the same burner/settings I burned
Solaris 10 u5 and Solaris 9 DVD images and can boot both on the U10..

It does appear that the DVD image is broke when it comes to booting -
all files appear under windows, and the MD5 checksum matches.

~k
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On Nov 10, 3:19*pm, Sami Ketola
wrote:

> You can also boot and install from the DVD without problems.

I disagree; I mounted the .iso via lofi (also noticed it was only one
slice, which is different than all the other Sol10 DVDs; normally I
have to mount both slices out of the .ISO) and ran a
setup_install_server, which *appeared* to work:

# /cd/s0/Solaris_10/Tools# ./setup_install_server /export/Boot/
Solaris_10_10_08
Verifying target directory...
Calculating the required disk space for the Solaris_10 product
Calculating space required for the installation boot image
Copying the CD image to disk...
Copying Install Boot Image hierarchy...
Copying /boot netboot hierarchy...
Install Server setup complete

but running add_install_client afterwards failed:

/export/Boot/Solaris_10_10_08/Solaris_10/Tools/add_install_client -i
1.2.3.4 -e 0:3:3:3:3:3 -p js1.domain.com:/export/jumpstart/sysidcfgs/
Solaris10/sysidcfg.8 -c js1.domain.com:/export/jumpstart client_name-
ce1.domain.com SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490
add_install_client: /export/Boot/Solaris_10_10_08/Solaris_10/Tools/
Boot/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490/boot_archive does not exist, invalid
boot image

If anyone has been able to setup_install_server from this .ISO image,
I'd love to know how!

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On Nov 11, 4:35*pm, Jim Leonard wrote:
>
> /export/Boot/Solaris_10_10_08/Solaris_10/Tools/add_install_client -i
> 1.2.3.4 -e 0:3:3:3:3:3 -p js1.domain.com:/export/jumpstart/sysidcfgs/
> Solaris10/sysidcfg.8 -c js1.domain.com:/export/jumpstart client_name-
> ce1.domain.com SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490
> add_install_client: /export/Boot/Solaris_10_10_08/Solaris_10/Tools/
> Boot/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490/boot_archive does not exist, invalid
> boot image

Just looked at this in closer detail and noticed that they removed all
of the platform-specific dirs. Changing the platform to "sun4u"
seemed to work.

[Database Administrator]

While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, scrawled:
> I know OpenBSD encountered a similar situation in 4.3 -
> something about encountering some limitation in the bootable image spec.

Found it:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/op...7/10/29/367208

Again - no idea if this is what's affecting the solaris dvd
images not to boot on my older box.

-Tai
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Originally Posted by Tai

While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, scrawled:
> I know OpenBSD encountered a similar situation in 4.3 -
> something about encountering some limitation in the bootable image spec.

Found it:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/op...7/10/29/367208

Again - no idea if this is what's affecting the solaris dvd
images not to boot on my older box.

-Tai
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And here I thought I was going nuts.

I have the same problem with the x86 U6 DVD,it just won't boot on my system, or any system I have for that matter. I burn the Solaris Express DVD on the same burner and the system boots fine off Solaris Express DVD.