[ug-bosug] Boot problems with OpenSolaris 2008.05

[Amit k. Saha]

Hi Anil,

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Ananth Shrinivas
<Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Amit,
>
>> While trying to start the OpenSolaris 2008.05 on my 32-bit notebook,
>> the start up procedure gets stuck (see screen shot). The CD-ROM drive
>> shows no activity and I can even eject it.
>>
>> Please note that:
>>
>> * works fine on a 64-bit notebook
>> * works fine with VirtualBox 1.5 on Ubuntu 7.04
>>
>> Any ideas as to what is going wrong?
>>
>
> Boot in verbose mode - i.e. add "-kv -m verbose" at the end of the
> "kernel" line in grub.
> This should give more clues about what happens just before the hang.

The screenshot is attached, I am not sure what it means. (Hope the
shot is legible)

Thanks,
Amit


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Amit Kumar Saha

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