Friday June 09, 2006

x64: Solaris Installation could fail with certain PCI Express chipsets

                Solaris Express x64 Installation failures with certain PCI Express Chipsets

Step 1: Boot with -kd option
You could break into GRUB menu editor
and append "-kd" to the line that begins with "kernel ..."

When Solaris boots, it will stop at the kernel debugger.

Step 2: Set a debugger breakpoint for the symbol "attach_drivers" thus:
::bp -d -n 1 attach_drivers
:c

Solaris will hit above breakpoint
Step 3: Disable Error Handling
npe`pcie_error_disable_flag/W 1
:c

Step 4: This setting could be made permanent by adding this line to /etc/system
set npe:pcie_errror_disable_flag = 1