Alex, I'm using the exact same mobo with an ATI graphics card - no issues. I've enabled the NVIDIA raid controller, but not configured the raid array as such, so that ZFS can see the individual disks. I'd make sure you have the latest BIOS.
You can also boot with -v options for the Grub boot to let you see what's happening as you boot. I haven't, however, been able to get the dev updates beyond 101b to work. cheers, Blake On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Alex Zelensky <alex.zelensky at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >
