[indiana-discuss] Boot stalls after upgrade to snv_90

[Sean Sprague]

Niels,

> I successfully updated my opensolaris install (on a Sony Vaio AR31E), 
> following the instructions from Alan Steinberg.  I mounted the new BE 
> and updated the grub menu file as mentioned.  After rebooting, the new 
> boot process halts after a couple of seconds.  With verbose booting, I 
> found out that the system halts right after loading tzmon:
>
> pseudo-device: tzmon0
> tzmon0 is /pseudo/tzmon at 0
>
> I tried excluding the driver from /etc/system, but that doesn't work.  
> Anyone who has a pointer to a cause / solution?

I will not for a second pretend to be any kind of authority on this 
aspect, but I googled a tzmon problem (not the same as yours) where 
thermal zone threshold was beinf reported incorrectly, and was worked 
around by setting acpi-user-options=2 on the GRUB boot line.

Worth a try?

Regards... Sean.