On Jun 22, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
I'm trying to install the darwinx86-801.iso on either of two machines,
the installation fails in different ways on both. If this is not the
appropriate forum for this sort of message, I apologize in advance.
This machine fails to even recognize the Darwin x86 CDROM. When the
Darwin CD is in the CDROM drive, it acts as if there is no CDROM
present, and continues on to boot from the hard disk. The Darwin
CDROM boots in another machine (below), and can be read in this
machine once another OS has booted, so it is not a simple media
problem. This machine boots the CDs from Solaris 10/x86, FreeBSD 5.x,
FreeBSD 6.x, and various linux distros just fine.
I dd'ed the ISO image to a disk partition and fooled around with
trying to get Grub to boot that partition via a chainloader, but
I had no joy with that either.
This is unlikely to work particularly well without more intimate
knowledge of the boot process. If you are really desperate and this
is your only option, I can try to expand on how one might make a
bootable HD partition from another OS.
Is there something "funny" about the format of the CD?
The CDs use El Torito No Emulation mode, which I believe is used by
Windows XP and Windows 2000 as well. Does your machine boot from those?
Is it possible
to PXE boot Darwin/x86 to avoid this issue?
It may be possible, looking at the booter source code, but I don't
know of any documentation to accomplish this.
Machine 2: DFI Lanparty UTnF4 Ultra-D with an Nvidia Nforce-4
chipset, 1.8GHz Athlon64
The CDROM actually boots on this machine, but the SATA drive is not
detected (at least the installation gives me an empty list of possible
installation devices and stops). Booting to single user mode from the
CDROM works flawlessly, but without disk to install on, its not
helpful.
This is an older Athlon64, and may not support SSE2. When you boot
single user, does "sysctl machdep.cpu.features" have "SSE2"?
It doesn't see the SysKonnect nor Nvidia Nforce ethernet adaptors, but
I have 3com and Intel EtherExpress 100 cards I could drop in there, so
the network is not a big issue, but disk support is. Are there
any tricks to getting NF4 SATA support working with Darwin, or is it a
lost cause?
Depending on what the problem is, you might just be suffering from
the SSE2 problem. In single user mode, try "ls /dev/disk*". If you
get more than one whole device, that means you probably have support
for at least one internal drive.
Shantonu
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