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Re: More on Netra X1 installation hang



Dave McGuire:
   The Netra X1s hang at the same place when netbooted, and also when
booting 5.1_RC3.  I have two other X1 machines that I can try, but I'd
have to dig them out first.  Since all three machines I've tested with
so far boot up and run fine with another hard drive containing Solaris
9, I don't really suspect flaky hardware at this point.

  ....

   Ok, a few hours have gone by since I typed the paragraph above, and
I've just gotten it working.  This is crazy.

   This hang occurs whenever my optical drive is connected to the
secondary IDE interface.  Not in use, just connected.  I've tried two
different drives, an LG CED-8120B CD-ROM drive and a Lite-on LTD-163
DVD-ROM drive.  I don't have any other drives handy to try at the moment.
I think the X1 is also using the Blade 100/150-based ALi-IDE-Chipset which is known to be buggy for SPARC machines. Please have a look on the mail posts about the Blade systems in reason years.

Best Regards
Stephan


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