Michael Kennedy wrote: > Well, I personally never thought this type of peripheral would have played into LiveCD/install boot stability at all, but the culprit was the USB keyboard that I had plugged in. I was using an Apple A1243 (Aluminum Wired USB) keyboard, and I switched that out replacing it with an old Dell PS/2 keyboard, now OSOL 2008.05 is now booting as expected. > > Not sure I can say I like the idea of a keyboard causing this type of > frustration, but there it is. I've moved on. OSOL is installing, and I'm moving closer to my data.
Thanks for the update, particularly w/ identifying the problematic device. Many people have seen this from time to time; I'll snag one of these devices and give this a try. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
