In article <3a349621-061d-41b5-8d76-fab05578aa4e@b64g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
Praveen Kunjapur <Praveen.Kunjapur@gmail.com> writes:
> I received the Solaris 10 kit which Sun Microsystems provided free of
> cost to anyone in the world a year back.
>
> When I received the kit, I inserted the DVD of the x86 version of
> Solaris 10 in the DVD drive of my x86 system. I followed all the steps
> till the steps of partioning the hard disk and installing the Solaris
> packages in my system.
>
> Now here's where my problem starts. After installing all the packages
> in my system, the system goes for a reboot. After rebooting, the
> system shows the CLI for a moment and suddenly goes into what it seems
> like a suspend/hibernate mode. Even when I press the keys of my
> keyboard or move my mouse, the system does not come out of the suspend/
> hibernate state.

I can think of 3 places this might be failing. You haven't
given enough info to tell which it is.

1) You see the grub menu, and nothing after that.

2) You see the grub menu and then the first couple of lines
from Solaris with the release and copyright message,
and nothing after that. These are output using the BIOS
services as Solaris hasn't loaded the console driver at
this stage.

3) You get some further output, such as "Hostname: unknown"
but then it goes dead. This would indicate the probing or
initialising of the X server is killing the console.

> How to overcome this problem?

1) Don't know
2) Make sure you don't have PnP OS set in the BIOS.
3) Need to boot single user and configure the X server using
kdmconfig(1M). In such cases I recommend switching to Xsun.
I had bad experiences with Xorg back then -- it was nowhere
near as good as Xsun at correctly detecting hardware and
coming up with a workable X server. (Xorg is much better
at this now -- downloading a newer release might be something
else to try.)

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Andrew Gabriel
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