I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 530. I was trying to install Solaris 11 build 75 on it. It took considerable permutations to finally make it work.
There are four USB ports on the back of the box. The USB keyboard and mouse must be connected to the lower two USB ports. The upper two USB ports are EHCI ports and have some issues while installing. If I boot the box after the machine completely cools down, it just hangs while booting up! But, if I force shutdown and boot immediately, Solaris comes up in 50 seconds! Looks like some components needs to be heated up for it to work. Sometimes while booting it freezes for 120 seconds then gives lots of USB errors and then boots up. Looks like there is a timeout of 120 seconds somewhere. Every time I have edited the grub to give '-v' option, the system comes up without any issues. If I give acpi-user-options = 2, then most of the time it does not have issues. Sometimes it has. Belenix with acpi-user-options=2 boots without any issues. But Belenix is build 63 I believe... All these hangs occur before loading kmdb. Couldn't even collect a thread list... With different behaviour on every reboot, its a bit difficult to nail down any of the issues. I'm not an ACPI or USB expert.... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
