Casper,
Thank you for your reply and I'm sorry for late response.
>I have used opensolaris nv17 on Fujitsu FMV 6800MG,
> which employed
> >800MHz pentium III, intel 440MX chipset and 256MB
> memory.
> >But when I tried to upgrade it from nv17, I could
> not install open solaris
> >nv 43 and nv48. The sys tem hang just after showing
> SunOS version messages.
> >Is here correct thread for the problem?
>
>
> It's very difficult to diagnose such early boot
> issues.
I understand that.
> Since nv17 is already based on newboot (grub boot)
> with the new ACPI
> interpreter, it seems less likely there are issues
> with those.
>
> What medium (CD/DVD/net) are you booting from?
I tryed CD and net. No luck with each of them.
> If you try booting with the "-v" option, this may
> give more clue
> of what is going on:
>
> hit 'e' when presented with the grub menu to edit
> t the menu item
> then select the multiboot line and hit 'e' again to
> o edit the line;
> add -v at the end of the line; hit ESC and then 'b'
> ' to boot
This time, I tryed -v option. The result was no luck.
I retype messages showed on the screen:
...
scsi_vhci0 at root
scsi_vhco0 is /scsi_vhci
isa0 at root
ramdisk0 at root
ramdist0 is /ramdisk
SMBIOS v2.3 loaded (1399bytes)pseudo-device: dld0
pci0 at root: space 0 offset 0
pci0 is /pci at 0,0
8042 device: keyboard at 0, kb8042 # 0
kb80420 is /isa/i8042 at 1,60/keyboard at 0
mouse80420 is /isa/i8042 at 1,60/mouse at 1
PCI-device: pci8086,719a at 7,2, uhci0
uchi0 is /pci at 0,0/pci8086,719a at 7,2
cpu0: x86 (GenuineIntel family 6 model 11 step 1 clock 800MHz)
cpu0: Mobile Intel(r) Pentium(r) III
USB 1.10 device (usb451,2036) operating at full speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root
hub: hub at 2, hubd0 at bus address 2
General Purpose USB Hub
hubd0 is /pci at 0,0/pci8086,719a at 7,2/hub at 2
/pci at 0,0/pci8086,719a at 7,s.hub at 2 (hubd0) online
Here the system stopped, but with -b option keyboard still echoed back.
> I have a similar spec'ed VAIO (700MHz PIII, 440BX,
> 384MB of memory)
> which works just fine.
Sorry, I cannot test to expand the memory.
> If there's a BIOS option about "plug and play"
> devices you may want to
No luck with and/or without plag and play OS option.
> toggle that; and check any Cardbus related options
> also.
The laptop have a cardbus slot and it worked with your cardbus
driver under nv17. Unfortunately the bios doesn't have option
for cardbus.
> With the current miniroot size (160MB) your system
> has little memory
> to play with, but I regularly install a 256MB system
> also.
I also tryed safemode miniroot in nv43, but no luck.
Is any debugging tool for the case, or should I put tracing
code into the kernel source?
-masa
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