I posted this on the 'help' forum, as I gather that is for installation issues, but I got no reply after several days, so I am trying here - it is a laptop where the issue is. The machine is a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ4XWN/C - dual core Intel based laptop, 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM.
I've been using Solaris Express about 6 months. All up to build 94 worked ok. Build 94 had a problem with the acpi driver, which caused b94 to panic during installation, but that was easily solved by disabling the acpi driver. (Phi has since written an improved driver, which works much better on my laptop under b94). I downloaded the build 95 iso, wrote it to DVD and tried booting the DVD in my laptop. The DVD boots to a grub menu, but there is no obvious attempt made to load Solaris. So all I get is a grub prompt. No mention of Solaris at all. There is not an option to select any version of Solaris at all. I've updated the BIOS and DVD drive firmware between installing b94 and b95, so I did consider it might be a firmware issue that was stopping Solaris booting. So I just tried b94 again, but that boots into Solaris OK - it panics, but I know that is the acpi driver issue. But b95 will not attempt to load Solaris. Has anything changed in the early stages of the boot process of the DVD? If so, it is stopping it booting on my laptop. Dave This message posted from opensolaris.org
