> Greetings, > > I'm trying to get b70 installed on an Intel DG965W[1] > with a Celeron 420[2]. Everything seems to install > just fine, but when I try to boot after the install, > the machine either goes into a reboot loop or dumps > out with an error indicating either a Bad Mutex in > enter_mutex or a GPF from a BAD TRAP. Any thoughts > on what's going on? > > My install drive is on SATA 0. Using the onboard > video adapter, which seems to work just fine during > the install. I can get into the failsafe Solaris > through grub, but I'm a total Solaris newbie, so I'm > not sure how to diagnose what's happening. > > Any help would be appreciated... Thanks!
During a failsafe boot, I think Solaris runs from a RAM disk image loaded by the boot loader; perhaps also during installation, although certainly the instance running during installation also reads and writes the disk itself. So either the installation was corrupted or somehow incorrect, or there's a code path that only happens when booting Solaris normally that has a problem in combination with your hardware. Beyond that, I'd be totally guessing, but I only tend to use Solaris on SPARC myself; there are bound to be plenty of people here that could carry it a lot further, although as AFAIK nobody is specifically being paid to answer questions here, it depends on when/whether the question catches a qualified person's attention and interest. This message posted from opensolaris.org
