2009/11/15 J?rgen Keil <jrgn.keil at googlemail.com>: > > Hmm, the usb drivers are loaded early during boot, > so that you get a working console keyboard, in > case you use an usb keyboard.
That's kinda handy ;) but I plugged in a PS/2 keyboard anyway, so I could edit the grub command line. > 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? It does. That, or usb storage devices. I disabled both. I also ran into another error: timeouts on my SATA bus. But this I could easily sort out: both my hard disk and optical drive are hooked up to a 3 GBPS SATA port, I moved them both to another channel and that works flawlessly. So the live cd works well, I had to give the installer one more push though, by first creating a Solaris partition with fdisk. I have a 70+ GB space between a Windows and an Extended partition, so i tried creating a 40GB partition there. The installer feels the need to correct that to 279 GB (=size of the disk). "adjustments were made to the new partitions - A size adjustment was necessary for one or more of the new partitions you created. This is due to existing partitions on the disk. Click cancel to review the adjustments made". Thank you #opensolaris irc channel. > 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? No. > 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... Doesn't seem to be needed, I can type on an usb keyboard once it's loaded. I'm going to enjoy my Solaris installation now, and see if it matters if I turn on usb legacy in the bios again. -- Frank Van Damme I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, F6, quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, init 0, kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out
