Another thing slightly related: When loading IRIX onto my SGI hardware, not just any drive would work. It had to have a certain physical drive relationship with sectors and chunk sizes (I may have terms wrong here - it's been a while). So since your VM is having the issue, I agree it's likely the VM bios presenting a slightly incompatible drive process. <br>
<br>The"F" is for "Fake" in the chipset string.<br><br> :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hscast@charter.net">hscast@charter.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Try reburning the CD and turn the burn speed down to the slowest<br>
> setting. The cd drive may be having issues reading the disk. I have seen<br>
> this with older drives no liking a CD burned at high speeds. The drive I<br>
> burned in was used to verify the disk checksum but the target drive was<br>
> very unhappy. Ran the burn speed to 2x and all went fine.<br>
><br>
> I seem to recall this a media problem and not really an old drive problem.<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Scott Castaline <<a href="mailto:hscast@charter.net">hscast@charter.net</a><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:hscast@charter.net">hscast@charter.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> Okay maybe way off topic, but I'm not sure what's happening and I<br>
> haven't been able to get an answer at OpenSolaris.org. I have been<br>
> playing around with opensolaris 200811 on virtualbox. the image file as<br>
> well as a cd burned with the image will boot in a VM. The problem I have<br>
> is that when I try to boot on the actual physical machine I get know<br>
> where, just a GRUB> prompt. When I manually step through the process,<br>
> I'll get Error 25: Disk read error. I have just tried it on another<br>
> system and it'll boot fine. The HCL has mention of a MoBo similar to<br>
> mine as working, what else could be interfering with it?<br>
><br>
> TIA<br>
> Scott<br>
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</div>The burner is a new one, I had burned 3 different CDs using 3 different<br>
apps, at near the slowest burn speed. I've always had a habit of doing<br>
slow burns. The same CDs on the same drive works in a VM on Virtualbox,<br>
so I think that rules out the CD and the drive. I beleive the difference<br>
is that in the VM it more than likely presents a different BIOS an MoBO<br>
even though it uses my physical processor as is, and possibly memory as<br>
is. I'm beginnig to think that it maybe a BIOS issue or the physical<br>
chipset. Although I have seen a similar Gigabyte MoBo on their HCL. I<br>
believe the closest chipset was a 790X/SB600 and mine is a 790FX/SB600,<br>
I can't seem to find what difference the F makes.<br>
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