I have a Toshiba laptop with 60GB hard drive. I installed Windows XP on a 40 GB Partition of NTFS format. So, I still had 20 GB of disk space which was not partioned. Anyhow, during the installation of solaris Intel 9 as a second Operating system, it asked me to create another partition. So, I created a partition for Solaris with a capacity of 7GB. (Still 13 GB of disk space is not allocated). Now, the problem is, the installation process runs smoothly till it reaches the step when it needs to reboot. After rebooting, the Solaris system does not come up!!!!! And the system, keeps hanging with a black screen. Now, if I shut down the PC (laptop) manually and turn it on again, I get a list of 2 options to boot from (1. boot from Windows 2. Boot from Solaris). If I choose option 2 (Boot from Solaris), the system proceedes for a while and then, a blak screen is displayed and the system hangs!!!! Now, the point is sill the installation process is not complete and the installation process should continue after rebooting but unfortunately, it hangs!!!! The hanging takes place after rebooting while the installation process is still in CD1. ( There are three CDs for Solaris 9 Intel). Any help on this problem is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

i am get a bad feeling that your video card did not get probed or a buggy driver. Try to pick the lowest resolution during install, or try to login from command line & do startx. Also the boot partition has to be in the first 1024 cylinders. Johnny Agarwal best of luck

Hello Jhonny, Thanks for your reply which I greatly appreciate. Anyhow, I tried every thing I could think of but nothing worked. I deleted all partions in the Hard Drive and installed Solaris 9 x86 on a clean hard disk but that did not work. Then, I tried all types of video cards but again, it did not work. I am sure it is not because of the video card configuration since during the installation, it asked me to set my video card and then there was a test screen to make sure that the video card was set correctly. And, it was set correctly. And by the way, initially, the video card was not set correctly and I did not get the test screen. Now, my feeling is most probably there is something wrong with the BIOS of my laptop which prevents the system from coming up after rebooting. May be, during rebooting, the Operating System kills all processes and then it sends a special boot signal to the BIOS but the BIOS can not interpret that signal. I am just wondering if there is any patch from SUN which solves this problem. Any help or suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I had a similar problem with rebooting when playing with Solaris 9 x86 on my desktop. It simply will not reboot itself - the OS stops, the system appears to reboot (I get the BIOS POST reports), then it hangs and eventually says something about not being able to find the MBR. I must power-cycle the machine, then it comes up fine. I guess I don't know enough about the mechanics of the OS shutting down and what precisely it tells the BIOS to do. But, this concerns me because what happens if we get a power surge or something that causes the system to reboot without a power cycle, and I'm not there to help it along?