Thanks ether.pt. I followed your instructions, and these are the results: With NVidia FX 5200 inserted in computer and set as main video controller:
1. The last message displayed before the system hangs and the keyboard becomes unusable etc. is ---> "mouse80420 is /isa/i8042 at 1,60/mouse at 1" 2. Both when using the verbose option, and when booting normally, once the system hangs, there is a blinking cursor that sometimes quickly moves from one side of the screen to the opposite side. 3. When not booting with the verbose option, the only thing displayed on screen is the copyright notice and the blinking cursor described above. 4. Both with and without verbose option, there is a slight amount of disk activity after the system hangs that lasts for about 30 seconds I also took out the NVidia and put in my ATI Radeon 9250 and got these results: 1. When booting from the hard drive, Solaris almost successively boots. The last message displayed before the system hangs is ----> "WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 1f,1/ide at 1 (ata1): timeout: reset bus, target=1 lun=0" 2. When booting from the install DVD, the same thing happens as with the NVidia, with the computer hanging with the "mouse80420..." message. As far as booting via serial interface, I don't believe that I have the hardware necessary to do that. This message posted from opensolaris.org
