OpenSolaris Team, I have gone through MANY gyrations of OpenSolaris 5/08 LiveCD attempts to install on my new Toshiba Satellite Laptop (Model: P305D-S8828, P/N: PSPD8U-007001).. even with boot device exclusions, etc.. to no avail..
This is on a new Toshiba Satellite laptop (ultimately to be a Vista Dual boot.. partitioning is done..). I saw a post somewhere on google that OpenSolaris doesn't support S-ATA DVD drives for installation and need to know if this is true and if so, WHEN it will be resolved as all the new HW seems to be using SATA (though I need to check my SuperMulti DVD drive w Labelflash.. as it shows up as ATA though so does my HD which is SATA). It starts to load.. gets past "Done mounting Live Image" .. and then "USB Keyboard" .. right after locale listings.. it immediately goes to a blank screen and just HANGS ! I've done the dual boot install on other Toshiba Tecra's.. and assumed this would be fine.. even ran the HW compatibility utility and it only showed some firewire driver issue.. but I booted and disabled that+... (-B disable-hci1394=true,disable-ehci=true) but still have this issue. Please help as I am frustrated.. and get NO error message.. (trying to boot into text console doesn't work either). Since there's no kernel booted.. I can't look into any /var/adm/messages.. Is there a Debug Mode flag I can add to the kernel boot line ? (or somehow see where it's failing ??). OR.. is this a known issue that I can work around somehow, or download a later or NON-OpenSolaris rev to use ? Loading OpenSolaris on my new desktop also fails (though that's different.. and I'll get to that when I load my laptop.. which I need asap). Please point me in the right direction, as the online OpenSolaris support has comments posted there for several months with NO answers.. and I don't want to go right to engineering. Thanks, Todd Jobson Sr. Enterprise Architect http://blogs.sun.com/toddjobson _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
