I have no problem installing any open source OS on my system (I'm currently running various flavors of Linux), but Solaris wont work.
Once I enter the live CD, it brings me to the splash screen, I click on the default boot option. So far so good. Then the OS appears to be loading but it stops at "probing device nodes." It sticks here for a good couple of minutes, then I hear my hard disks shut off and come back on. After that, it gives me a prompt for "system maintenance mode." I enter the default root password "opensolaris" and it takes me to a bash prompt. No command I enter at the bash prompt appears to work. I have tried this several times and it always freezes at "probing device nodes." Hardware: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Socket AM2 -- Nvidia Nforce 570 chipset CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4000+ RAM: 2GB Corsair XMS2 pc-6400 Hard drives: 2 standard Western Digital IDE in master/slave configuration. Video -- Nvidia Geforce 8400GS Sound -- Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (motherboard has an onboard Realtek chipset, but I don't use it). I suspect I have incompatable hardware somewhere in the above mix, but I have no idea how to diagnose exactly which component causes the freeze at "probing device nodes." Any ideas? Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org
