I must say, i am completely at a loss here. I had a completely successful install of 5.11 running when suddenly it just spontaneously reboot. The problem is that now it reboots just after selecting the O/S from grub...
I pulled the drive and placed it in another known-good PC, and the symptoms repeated. This told me drive failure or file corruption... (or somehow solaris was incompatible with that hardware) For curiosity's sake, i grabbed a new HDD (in fact, i changed from IDE to SCSI just in case) and installed a fresh copy on the new PC, this guaranteed that there was no common hardware. Install was fine. Rebooted and... same thing. Continuous reboot the instant 5.11 tries to boot. Going back to the original computer, i installed the SCSI adapter and placed a different SCSI HDD in the PC, downloaded a fresh copy of 5.11, burned it, installed and... same thing :( If i boot to failsafe mode, i get to the console just fine... I am at a complete loss as to why i cannot get a functional install of 5.11 now on ANY PC, and am not sure how to begin troubleshooting an O/S that crashes before any logging actually begins to take place. :( any suggestions on what to try next? I have tried 3 motherboards and CPUs, and several sticks of ram and different powersupplies... i even swapped keyboard/mouse just to make sure nothing was kept common between the machines. This message posted from opensolaris.org
