Installation guide

Problem How to Fix the Problem
x86 based systems only.
The BIOS primary drive on your system was
not detected by the Configuration Assistant
program during the pre-booting phase.
If you are using old drives, they may be unsupported.
Check the Supported Hardware section.
Make sure the ribbon and power cables are plugged in
correctly. Check the manufacturer’s documentation.
If only one drive is attached to the controller, designate the
drive as the master drive by setting jumpers. Some drives
have different jumper settings for a single master, as
opposed to a master operating with a slave. Connect the
drive to the connector at the end of the cable to reduce
signal ringing that occurs when an unused connector is
dangling at the end of the cable.
If two drives are attached to the controller, jumper one drive
as the master (or as a master operating with a slave), and
jumper the second drive as a slave.
If one drive is a hard disk and the second a CD-ROM drive,
designate the drive as the slave drive by setting jumpers. It
doesn’t matter which drive is plugged into which drive
connection on the cable.
If there are persistent problems with two drives on a single
controller, attach one drive at a time to verify that each
works. Jumper the drive as master or single master and use
the drive connector at the end of the IDE ribbon cable to
attach the drive. Verify that each drive works, then jumper
the drives back into a master and slave configuration.
If the drive is a disk drive, use the BIOS setup screen to
ensure that the drive type (which indicates the number of
cylinders, heads, and sectors) is correctly configured. Some
BIOS software may have a feature that automatically detects
the drive type.
If the drive is a CD-ROM drive, use the BIOS setup screen
to configure the drive type as a CD-ROM drive, when the
BIOS software has this capability.
If MS-DOS does not recognize the drive, there is probably a
hardware or BIOS configuration problem. For many
systems, IDE CD-ROM drives are only recognized by
MS-DOS if a MS-DOS CD-ROM driver has been installed.
Problem How to Fix the Problem
x86 based systems only.
The IDE or CD-ROM drive on your system
was not found by the Configuration
Assistant program in the pre-booting phase.
If disks are disabled in the BIOS, use the Solaris Device
Configuration Assistant/Boot diskette to boot from the hard
disk.
If the system has no disks, it make be a diskless client.
7-4 Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997