About the freeze, well lets see if the "standard advice" works ;-)
While booting from grub add "-kv" to boot options (on boot entry press "e" and again "e", add -kv to end then "enter" then "b") Remain at system console (text mode) and connect the external drive. When it freezes, press F1-A (both F1 and A) and that will drop you to kernel debugger. From there you can get backtrace and a hell lot of other info "$C for backtrace I think". Search for "mdb dcmd" for other useful commands. This may pinpoint the driver etc that may be causing the problem. If the above doesn't work, add "set snooping=1" to /etc/system.conf and boot with kernel debugger enabled. If system is hard locked, the "deadman" code will panic the system and hopefully you'll land up in kernel debugger (or will have a core dump that you analyze later). HTH - mritun This message posted from opensolaris.org
