> > 1) Acer 3680-2862, i943GML chipset, upgraded from > > Celeron M 440 to Core Duo T2250. The CD boots, but > > shortly after displaying the copyright notice and > > before displaying the detecting devices message, > it > > locks hard. > > You could try to find out some more information by > enabling > verbose kernel boot messages, booting with the kmdb > kernel > debugger, and tracing kernel module loading. > > See this blog for details: > > > ttp://blogs.sun.com/dmick/entry/diagnosing_kernel_hang > s_panics_with
Thanks... I'll let you know what happens. > > 2) Sony Vaio PCG-K37, 3.2ghz P4m with an Ali > chipset. > > The CD boots, but something goes wrong when > detecting > > devices. After a long delay, I get two messages > about > > problems detecting the UARTs for asy0 and asy1; > > Is that something like: > > asy1: UART @ 2f8 scratch register: expected 0x5a, > got 0xff > Cannot identify UART chip at 2f8 That's it exactly. > That happens on systems without usable ACPI support. > When ACPI isn't available for device enumeration, > Solaris > falls back to hardcoded values for certain ISA > devices > (PS/2 keyboard & mouse, 2 serial ports, 1 parallel > port). > > Typically there are no more serial ports on current > HW, > so the hardcoded values are wrong, and this results > in the > above UART/ASY messages. > > Should be harmless. It's just a warning. I figured it should be, but thanks for explaining it. > Are there any BIOS setup options to enable ACPI? No. Sony stripped this version of the Phoenix BIOS of just about any settable values. I assume that ACPI is available, but not being recognized. (Sodding miserable BIOS... it even limits the box to 1GB of RAM even though the chipset is supposed to support 2GB.) > > Eventually, I get an error that the > > console service can not be started and get dropped > to > > the prompt for maintenance mode. > > Not sure why is does this. Maybe because the > hardcoded > values for ISA device are wrong for the PS/2 keyboard > / mouse. > What kind of keyboard / mouse hardware are you using > here? > USB (unlikely for a notebook)? Does the keyboard > work > for a login? I *think* the keyboard and trackpad are considered to be PS/2. The keyboard does work allow me to enter the root password of "opensolaris", so I don't think that this is the issue. > Or it's unable to access the LiveCD, maybe due to > missing > support of the Ali chipset? What kind of HDD & > optical devices > are you using on this system? P-ATA or S-ATA? This sounds more likely. Both the DVD drive and the HD are PATA. FWIW, I did try the "-B atapi-cd-dma-enable=0" parameters to the kernel, but that didn't seem to make a difference. Thanks for the insights... John This message posted from opensolaris.org
