Greetings, The conclusion I reached is that USB support in Solaris 10 is not really ready for prime time yet. I will be unable to boot from cd w/ the IBM Blade Centers cdrom. I will have to setup a PXE boot to boot, then jumpstart from there. Here is a compatibility list that details what cd's are supported: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/components/views/cd_rom_dvd_drive_all_results.page1.html Thanks to Micheal Grice and the few others that replied. Drew On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:35, Andrew Hall wrote: > Greetings, > > I am attempting to jumpstart a IBM HS20 blade and the installer is > unable to find the cdrom. The blade center uses a USB based "media > tray", basically a cd/floppy that is in chassis and can be used by each > blade within the chassis. One selects which blade is to use the media > tray at any given time. > > I boot from the first cd, (so the BIOS sees it) and it goes through the > searching for devices, and finds all devices, expect the cdrom. I try > to add a driver, but it can't see the floppy driver either. > > Any suggestions? Anyone have any experience installing Solaris 10 on an > IBM blade? > > Thanks in advance, > > Drew _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu May 12 17:42:11 2005
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