[ug-bosug] Indiana installation on Dell Inspiron 1520

[USM Bish]

Recently I got for myself a Dell Inspiron 1520, which is quite
a modern box with 2 GB RAM and 160 GB hard disk with
Intel Core2 duo processor.

I tried to install Indiana on it as a multiboot on a 40 GB space
(primary partition - over /dev/hda2 in linux parlance).

The Indiana CD which I picked up at foss.in, worked just fine
in the live mode, with nearly all hardware detected (except for
the Intel high definition audio) and working by default. Yes,
that includes the Wifi and bluetooth. The "slim" installer also
worked fine, and installation over native partition went through
neat without hassles. (Yes, it did destroy the MBR, but that is
not much of an issue).

However, when booting from the hard disk for the first time
itself, I get the grub menu fine. On choosing OpenSolaris
the box just hangs - there are some messages which keep
scrolling across the screen and very fast without a pause.
I cannot make out what the error messages are. Ctrl-C,
Break, Ctrl-Break and even the three finger salute has no
effect. I need to use the on/off switch !

Thinking that it could be a glitch in the older version, I went
over the Indiana site and found a more recent iso
which I downloaded and checked the md5sum. This one
just hangs at the grub stage itself, and instead of the
kernel loading messages, I am placed at the grub prompt.
The live system itself does not come up.

All versions of Belenix from 0.5 onwards work just fine
(minus the sound). The Intel HDA would need OSS 4
(as per net searches).

Has anybody faced a similar situation in this or any other
box ? What could this be due to ?

I could always try Solaris Express (Dev Edn), but then it is
a full DVD of download, and not sure if that would work.

Bish