jason west wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
what happens when you boot w/ -k? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
