Hi everyone, I'm trying to get OpenSolaris b64 running on an Asus Terminator C3 (which uses a Via C3 processor). I was able to install OpenSolaris, grab the appropriate ethernet drivers from http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/, and get everything set up. However, when I went to run it sans PS2 keyboard, the machine hung during boot.
The first thing I did was add -v to the kernel boot arguments for GRUB; the last line I get on the console during startup this way is a message about successfully loading uhci1. (When the keyboard is plugged in with the -v boot option, I see uhci2 and uhci3 scroll by.) This lead me to believe the USB support was the problem. I tried disabling the USB support in the BIOS (initially, just disabling legacy USB support, and eventually disabling USB entirely), only to have OpenSolaris hang at the same point in the boot process, sans uhci modules loading. After this, I figured I'd try setting up the kernel debugger with a watchdog timer, and take a look at the callstack to at least give me a wild guess as to what's wrong. I changed the GRUB menu.lst kernel parameters to -kdv, and entered the following into the debugger: moddebug/W 0x80000000 snooping/W 0x1 :c And then I hit enter and pulled the keyboard plug out as quickly as I can. Sometimes it boots successfully (I didn't unplug the keyboard fast enough) and sometimes it hangs at the same spot, but the watchdog timer never seems to kick in. I've tweaked the snoop_interval as well, but even waiting an hour hasn't yielded a debug break. Plugging in the keyboard at this point does nothing - I can't for the life of me get into the debugger while it's hung! Does anyone have any better suggestions on how to run this machine without a keyboard physically attached? I feel like I've got a chicken-and-egg problem, because I can't actually type when the problem occurs. Thanks, Paul This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
