So Long My Dear, Sun Microsystems…

I have been fall in love with Sun Microsystems before I go to college. I love their innovation, idea, and vision. Thanks God, I have join this company for almost 4 years minus couple days. As a public news regarding Sun acquisition by Oracle, yesterday EU approved the acquisition without condition, and it means the end of Sun Microsystems.

I just can say, so long my dear, Sun Microsystems, I love being part of you, you gave a lot to me and my country…

SL-ing IONITX

Like my previous posting, I have trouble installing  Snow Leopard in Zotac IONITX board. The specification of my board could be found here. Following items are my additional hardware configuration:

• Motherboard: Zotac IONITX D-E
• Memory: 2×2GB Corsair XMS 800MHz
• Hardrive WDC 500GB Green
• Samsung P2370 HD LCD Monitor
• Samsung DVD RW

I did follow this tutorial, especially this section and it’s working awesome.

Here are temporary summary of the results:

• VGA is working great with BIOS setting using VRAM 512MB
• Line out Audio is working
• Shutdown is working with BIOS setting ACPI 2.0 (I did try using ACPI 3.0, but it failed to shutdown)
• Restart and Sleep are not working (after replace boot file using EFI PCI v 5.1)

SL-ing Asus P6T Deluxe

After couple of months trying to install Snow Leopard on my Asus P6T Deluxe PC Desktop , today I have it done pretty well..

Here are my Desktop Configuration:

Mobo: Asus P6T Deluxe (BIOS Version 1102)

CPU: Intel Core i7 920

Memory: Corsair XMS 3×2G (6GB) DDR3 1096MHz

VGA: Asus 9400GT 512MB Silent

Disk: 750GB WD SATA Green

DVD: Sony DVD RW

Screen: Apple Cinema Display HD 23″ and Samsung P2370

I just follow step-by-step on this insanelymac, but if you want the easier way there are other posting from other guy which provide installer to do the steps automatically, you can find here.

Here are the evaluation results so far:

• VGA Card is detected properly
• Shutdown/Restart is working
• Sound card output is working
• Sleep is working, but the wake-up is still problem, turn into blank screen after upgrade fakesmc to v2.5
• Need OSX86Tools to make Core i7 detected properly

After installation, I am able to update to 10.6.2 with combo update without any problems.

If you have problem with Shutdown and Restart with some configuration in BIOS, so you might need to:

• Enabling ACPI 2.0
• Apply OpenHaltRestart.kext that can be found in my other post.

Solaris 10 10/08 (U6) ZFS Root Installation Tip

If you wish to install the new Solaris 10 10/08 using ZFS for its root file system, you might not see it in GUI installation mode.

That’s why you need to install it using Text/Console mode. Just choose number 4 in the first prompt of the installation process.

In one of wizard step, you are prompted either using ZFS or UFS, just choose ZFS instead. Then, fill the pool name, choose the size of root pool swap and dump area, and how you want to store /var.

xVM with Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver

I have days problem with enabling my Marvell Yukon Ethernet Driver (in may case, I’m using 88E8056) working with Sun xVM VirtualBox and xVM in either Solaris 10 or Nevada B80/B93. I used driver comes from Marvell, I have test 2 versions of drivers, but no luck. All version, when I issued dladm show-dev command. it always indicate that the status is UNKNOWN.

After searching around just realize that xVM needs GLD v3 network drivers that is not provided by Marvell, this link is very useful for me, so I replicated from that site become newer version:

• Obtain ON source here and extract it
• Obtain driver source here (in this case I’m using version 2.6.1, or you can get newer version) and extract it
• Make sure that skge (from Solaris/OpenSolaris Installer) or yukonx (from Marvell) were removed
• Do this thing:

$ gzcat myk-2.6.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd myk-2.6.1
$ rm Makefile.config
$ ln -s Makefile.config_gld3 Makefile.config
$ vi Makefile.config

Edit the line like this (appropriate with your ON source extracted location):
ONUTSDIR = /root/Download/opensolaris/usr/src/uts

• Build and install the driver (in this case I’m using GCC)

$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sfw/bin
$ gmake
$ su
# gmake install
# ./adddrv.sh
# dladm show-link
LINK CLASS MTU STATE OVER
myk0 phys 1500 up --

Now you can start your Sun xVM VirtualBox and xVM network bridge is working fine…