> >> I have an installation problem. I just downloaded 2009.06 and I can't > >> get further than these three lines of text: > >> sunos release bla bla... > >> copyright yaddayadda... > >> use is subject to etc etc ... > >> > >> After that there's no more flickering from the disk led or cdrom drive > >> and I have to reset the computer. > > > > Hmm, start with a "verbose" kernel boot. ... > PCI Express-device: pci1458,5006 at 1a,7, ehci0 > ehci0 is /pci at 0,0/pci1458,5006 at 1a,7 > PCI Express-device: pci1458,5006 at 1d,7, ehci1 > ehci1 is /pci at 0,0/pci1458,5006 at 1d,7 > > > ... that's it.
Hmm, the usb drivers are loaded early during boot, so that you get a working console keyboard, in case you use an usb keyboard. I think that there could be multiple reasons why it hangs in this place. One is bios usb legacy support, that gets disabled when the operating system drivers starts managing the usb controller hardware. Maybe disabling usb legacy support in the bios helps? A bug that is similar seems to be 887456 "osol_123 livecd hangs if there is usb card reader hooked up" http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6887456 I suspect that with this bug the bios supports booting from usb mass storage devices (usb card reader in this case), and there is a problem when solaris takes over control from the bios. Do you have any usb hdd / usb flash memory sticks / usb card readers / usb floppy drive / or similar attached to the system? Bug 6859147 "Lenovo ThinkCentre hangs on boot in uhci" http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6859147 shows a similar hang; if I understand the description correctly the user is able to boot the lenovo system by disabling the uhci driver using the kernel boot option "-B disable-uhci=true" but the problem is that an usb keyboard is used, and without uhci usb 1.1 support, there is no usable console keyboard any more... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
