Apologies for the nth posting about live CDs not booting - the forum search doesn't seem to be working properly.
I have a brand new home-brewed server with 2 x XeonE5405 quad core processors, on a Supermicro X7DWA-N motherboard (Intel 5400 Seaburg chipset). I'm trying to boot the 2009.06 Live CD from a USB-attached CD-rom drive. It gets to the grub boot selection screen OK, but whichever option I choose, I get: 1. a blue background with an increasing series of dots in the top left of the screen 2. a black screen 3. the SunOS 5.1 header 4. scrolling stuff that goes past so fast I can't read it 5. "syncing file systems... done" followed by an immediate reboot of the server. Please have you got any advice on how I can slow down the messages - I've tried -k, but it seems to stop short of anything that I see above. This machine is happy to boot and install other operating systems from the same CD drive - e.g. FreeSAN. I'm wondering if it's an architecture thing - x86 vs amd64 ??? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
