Having seen photos of others running solaris on macbooks I figured I would post my experience here in the hope that someone can tell me what I am doing wrong, or that what I am trying will not work (so I can stop wasting my time).
White Macbook Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 80GB HDD 1. Removed my normal OS X hardrive and put an empty 80GB drive in the laptop 2. Booted the Macbook with Solaris Express b68 DVD 3. GRUB Menu appears but there seems to be no keyboard so its not possible to select a boot option 4. System boots into the default (Developer version) and displays the 3 options. Seems there is no console only installation with this version so its not possible to avoid the system loading a graphical environment 5. Looks like the system probes the graphics and tries to identify one, no resolutions are displayed and it seems to try using the intel chipset. 6. Proceeding from this point results in funny graphics display that is unreadable. 7. Selecting VESA option also results in corrupt display and inability to proceed with installation Any suggestions on how to get past this ? Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org
