Hi friends, I tried to install solaris 8 intel platform edition. I got an error message "configuration error-missing controller?" "The root file system is not mounted and the configuration assistant has exited prematurely. Booting is unlikely ro succeeded". Please help me

hey; I think you have a similar problem to one that i experienced with sol7 on intel. You probably have an unsupported scsi card, and need to find a patch for that controller and load its device driver / patch prior to OS installation. (similar to preloading a device driver in windows) The following is part of a readme from adaptec on the installation sequence for an ultra 160 controller. ( with my comments in it ) 1. Insert Solaris 7 Device Configuration Assistant 11/99 Diskette into your machine's diskette drive. Or Insert Solaris 8 Device Configuration Assistant Beta Refresh Diskette into your machine's diskette drive. 2. Turn on your Machine. 3. When the Solaris Device Configuration Assistant screen is displayed, press F4_Add_Driver. The "Install Supplemental Drivers" screen is then displayed. 4. Remove Solaris 7 Device Configuration Assistant 11/99 Diskette from the diskette drive and insert the first Solaris 7 Driver Patch diskette. Or Remove Solaris 8 Device Configuration Assistant Beta Refresh Diskette from the diskette drive and insert the first Solaris 8 Driver Patch diskette. 5. Press F2_Continue. The select Solaris system Version screen is displayed 6. Select Solaris OS 2.7 for Solaris 7 or Solaris OS 2.8 for Solaris 8, and press F2_Continue. The Loading Driver Update Software screen is displayed, along with a progress bar that shows the percentage of drivers that have been extracted from the diskette. Drivers are read into memory and survive long enough for the system to successfully boot to its installation program. When all the new drivers on the diskette have been processed, the "Continue Supplemental Drivers Driver Installation" screen is displayed. 7. Press F4_Done. The "Identified Device Drivers" screen is displayed, the rootnex driver and the cadp160 driver (if a supported adpater is installed in the system) are displayed. 8. Remove the Solaris 7 Driver Patch diskette from the diskette drive and reinsert Solaris 7 Device Configuration Assistant 11/99 Diskette. Or Remove the Solaris 8 Driver Patch diskette from the diskette drive and reinsert Solaris 8 Device Configuration Assistant Beta Refresh Diskette. 9. Press F2_Continue. The Solaris Device Configuration Assistant screen is displayed. 10. Press F2_Continue. The "Determining buse types and..." message is displayed. The Scanning Devices screen is then displayed. System devices are scanned. When scanning is complete, the Identified Devices screen is displayed. Adaptec 160 is recognized properly. 11. Press F2_Continue. The message "Loading driver com.bef ..." is displayed followed by messages about the drivers that are required to boot your system. After a few seconds, the Boot Solaris screen is displayed. 12. At the Boot Solaris screen, select the device controller attached to the device that contains your install medium (Software CD). The hardrive controlled by the adaptec is NOW shown, but choose the CD to install FROM. 13. Press F2_Continue. Drivers for the device controller you selected are displayed. Your system boots to run the install program. The install program starts and your machine begins booting the complete Solaris 7 / 8 operating environment. …must choose type of install ie Webstart….choose language …choose kdmconfig- …F4 bypass… Interactive Display starts… console starts… host name ? blah… networked ? Yes … IP addr: blah… name service ? … subnet ? no … timezone ? geographic…eastern etc. … system identification is complete …starting Solaris installation program …Solaris Webstart starts up (java applet) browser… Click - Start Installation… choose Server … admin password – … exit webstart inti interactive , customize poartition…installs , finally Then, after some time, the following messages are displayed: "Installing unbundled device driver support Extracting driver list from tree.. distribution-diskette-name driver-name..." "Please insert the Driver Update diskette labeled distribution-diskette-name Press (ENTER); when ready." 14. Remove Solaris 7 Device Configuration Assistant 11/99 Diskette and reinsert the first Solaris 7 Driver Patch diskette you inserted earlier into the diskette drive. 15. Press Enter. Patches that contain the new drivers are installed from the diskette onto your machine. Messages about the patches being installed are displayed, followed by the prompt; "If you have additional Update diskettes to install (such as video), please insert diskette now. Additional Update diskettes to install? (y/n) [y]" 16. Type "n" then Press Enter. When installation is complete, the message "Installation complete" is displayed. 17. Remove the diskette from the diskette drive. 18. Reboot your machine. When the Solaris operating environment is finished booting and running, the new devices whose drivers you installed are available for use. Hope this helps...I had to jump through hoops for the enet and video controller as well...i guess it pays to use supported hardware...good luck ! erik