> os 2008.11 > Upon boot, after selecting installation mode on the > splash screen, the system replies with " Loading > Stage 2....". > A few lines scroll down the screen, pausing at > "syncing file systems 3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,....." > after which the screen goes black and a few seconds > later it starts the entire boot process all over > again.
Probably a kernel panic... At at initial grub menu edit the "kernel$" line of the first entry (type 'e' twice) and append options " -kv" at the end of the line; RETURN + 'b' boots. Now it should stop in the kernel debugger when a panic happens. The ::stack command displays a stack backtrace. The information in the stack backtrace can help identifying which driver module is causing the problem. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
