[OpenIndiana-discuss] Stack not written error on install attempt

[Ben Taylor]

Oh, I think I know what that problem is.

I saw problems with my Radeon X1550 PCI.  That board has a PCI to
PCI-E bridge on it, and I had similar issues you are reporting with
Solaris 10 and Solaris Express.

Early on (S10U6/7) I could get systems to boot with that board in,
but then the system would enumerate all the normal ISA/PCI devices
as PCI-E.  Later version of Solaris just crashed with that board in.

I think the PCI/PCI-E routing code in Solaris just gets supremely
confused by the bridge and just gives up the ghost.  I wonder if
that NVidia card also has a PCI-PCIE bridge.

I've got an extra Radeon PCI X1550 to loan to an OI/Illumos developer
wants to take a shot at this....

Ben


On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:
>  i pulled the video card and it booted and installed fine.  I put the card
> back in and it puked again but didn't give me that dump.  The card was
> working fine with the machine in Ubuntu but that doesn't mean much.  It is a
> pci 9500 gt nvidia (sparkle) in a v40z (which was never meant to have a
> video card) so I think it probably isn't worth pursuing further. ....
>
>
>
> On 07/14/11 04:09 PM, Richard Lowe wrote:
>>
>> That's part of the messages you get if the systems panics prior to the
>> dump
>> device being configured.
>>
>> Boot with -kv added to the kernel$ line in the grub configuration (hit 'e'
>> to edit.) And it should stop in the debugger and give you time to read the
>> message.  The '$<msgbuf ' command will let you page through the console
>> log,
>> including the panic message and stack, if/when you have those the best
>> thing
>> to do us to file an illmus bug including them (its easiest to attach
>> photos,
>> copying out addresses in hex is tedious and error prone.)
>>
>> -- Rich
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