Looks like this is a bug with Solaris 10 x86 8/7 in 64 bit mode. I was unable to find this particular issue with sun, but one that was close enough suggested booting in 32 bit mode with an eeprom boot=kernel/unix which made the symptoms go away. The error that pops up on the console during the cpio portion of the install_server script is bad_set_user_regs: HEXSTUFF; how can this happen?? Fun error with a great question. The suggested sun patch is already applied to 8/7, but booting into 32 bit mode works just fine. Thanks all for the help! Jason wrote: > Greetings, I'm trying to setup an install server inside of vmware server > 1.0.4 using solaris 10 x86 8/7 release. I'm shooting for a cross > platform install server, so I'm using the same release of solaris for > sparc platform for my source. When I run the good old > setup_install_server, everything proceeds nicely until it switches to > Copying Data. At that point, the vm reboots. No errors, no log > messages, but I can reproduce it every time. I've reinstalled solaris in > the VM a few times now, given it tons of memory and still no luck. I do > have this working outside of vmware on an x86 laptop, but vm would be > much more convenient. I'm going to post this to a vmware list shortly, > but thought I would try some of the sages here first. > > Jason _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Jan 17 18:50:19 2008
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