> Tried to load the 2008.11 Live CD on a machine that > is now running 2008.5. Booted the machine with the > 2008.11 CD, after a moment a text screen briefly > shows many lines of text too fast to read, then my > system reboots and starts the whole brief process > over again. This is on a MSI K9 Platinum motherboard, > an AMD64 dual core 5600+ and NVidia 8600gt.
That appears to be a kernel panic. Edit the grub menu entry: type 'e' twice, and append " -kv" at the end of the kernel$ line. RETURN + 'b' boots. It should stop in the kernel debugger and you can read the panic messages. $C prints a stack backtrace. ::msgbuf prints the console messages The stack backtrace could give us a hint what kernel module is causing the crash. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
