Hi, I am having really weird experience with 2008.11 on my PC (AMD Athlon 64 3000+, Asus K8N4-E Deluxe motherboard, Nvidia GeForce 6400, 4 SATA and 2 PATA HDDs).
Installation from the Live CD would get stuck irreversibly (not responding to keyboard input) in the console mode, when the default option was selected, but I could boot from the CD by switching to text mode in GRUB menu, starting the vnc server and connecting to it from another machine (as described e.g. here http://blogs.sun.com/VirtualGuru/entry/installing_opensolaris_2008_05_into). In these settings the installation went without a hitch. However, I cannot use the OS. When I try to boot (from the hard drive) in GUI, the system freezes after a while, the boot progress bar just stops moving, and I have to hard-reset. Booting in the text mode seems to go OK and reaches the login prompt, at which stage the system freezes again (no response to keyboard, no output on the screen). It about there is a short lag between the appearance of the log in prompt and the freeze, and if I'm quick I can type in my user name and password, get to shell and execute a few commands. And then the system stops responding. I tried booting with verbose and kernel debug options ( -kdv ), but it doesn't get me into debugger, and the messages I see at the time of the freeze seem pretty innocent. I turned off all unnecessary options in BIOS (e.g. sound and the Silicon Image RAID controller I don't use Si3114), and removed the wireless card, but this didn't change anything. At this point I'm out of ideas as to what else to try fix or at least diagnose the problem, so any suggestions will be very welcome. Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
