enabling gdm does the trick -- that is to say the gnome desktop magically appears and I can confirm that the Supermicro H8DME-2 motherboard including ethernet ports appears to work just fine. I have a zfs root pool on a disc attached to the SAS expander and all...
Jonathan ((note: I had the SAS board flashed to "IT" mode). Now if I can just figure out how to flash 8 of my Seagate ES.2 1TB drives to firmware version AN05 I am probably good to go.)) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
