>BanjoBoy wrote:
>> I'm trying to install OpenSolaris on my Compaq Presario 2825EA laptop, but 
>> the boot fails on loa
ding the ohci (USB?), boot lock. If I add "-B disable-ohci=true" I can boot. 
The compability test i
dentify the ohci as supported.
>> 
>> Is this a known problem and will it be solved?
>> 
>
>I've had to do this with other Compaq laptops.  I don't know if there's 
>a bug against it, you might have better luck asking on laptop-discuss.
>



Note that such a hang is generally the result of an interrupt conflict of 
sorts: a device which is initialized by the BIOS and generates interrupts
on as vector shared with the device of which the attach appears to generate
the hang.  But rather than being the cause of the hang, what happens is
that the interrupt gets unmasked and the just attached device gets 
repeatedly asked to service this interrupt which, of course, fails.

Casper


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