On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Rajesh S R <srrajesh1989 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I tried to run live CD of Solaris in my system. > It gives the error: > "No SOF interrupts have been received, this USB EHCI host controller is > unusable" > > It doesn't detect my USB mouse at all. I think no USB port is detected! > > I searched net and found the bug: > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6509490 > > The Workaround of affixing acpi-user-options=0x8 to the end of kernel > parameters doesn't work for me!. The system simply reboots. I tried with 0x4 > and 0x2 also, with no result!
Try disabling ACPI in the BIOS. > > Another question: > When I try to install Open Solaris in my friend's system, it is showing only > 2 partitions one NTFS partition he had allocated for windows and other > partition as extended. Though in fact he had 1 ext3, 2 vfat, a swap, a 10GB > of free space(in which we intend to install Solaris), all is being shown as > a single extended partition! > He has a single hard disk, I think. > In searching net, I find that many open Solaris installation on linux boxes > tells me to format the partition in which I will install Solaris as Swap. I > think Solaris should detect at least Swap in that case. But it it is not > doing it. :( You seem to have logical partitions inside an extended partition. Solaris cannot yet handle extended partitions so it will not show the logical partitions. If you have created free space inside the extended partition that will not work. You need to have free space outside the extended partition. You can do that using GParted livecd. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
