SUMMARY: Automatic boot of Solaris 10 does not work

2007-12-25 4:57:00

Hi,

thanks to Capser Dik the problem is solved:

try decreasing the timeout for boot;

/etc/bootrc (line 25)

and perhaps also:

eeprom auto-boot-timeout=1

It does mean you need to be somewhat quicker when you want
to interrupt boot.

And perhaps decreasing the blue screen timeout helps too:

/boot/solaris/strap.rc

This is a known bug in the real mode ata driver in combination
with certain harddisk (mostly seen on laptops with varying
degrees of severity.

Setting the timeout to 2 removes the error.

Bernd

Original Post:

Hi,

I installed Solaris 10 on my Thinkpad T30 without problems except that
the automatic boot does not work:

Booting the partition with Solaris without user intervention ends with
a "disk read error". But when I enter "b" (when asked for i or b)
Solaris boots without problems.

The path to tthe boot device printed in both cases is the same:
/pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,1/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0:a

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