U4 Won't install w/ Adaptec AUA-4000B / NEC D720101 USB PCI Card
Machine is an ASUS P2B-F, Pentium III / Coppermine / 800MHz, 1GB ECC memory, has been a reliable machine for many years, including this this card, under Win2K and Linux (Knoppix and Suse).
When I boot the U4 DVD, select the default ("Solaris Interactive"), then the screen clears, prints series of dots, then the kernel message (3 or 4 lines), then the problem...
Prints a bunch of debug information that scrolls too fast to read, stops for about one second, then clears the screen and reboots. I have taken a picture of the last screenful that is stable for 1 second (at the most) and can mail it (I don't see a way to attach it).
Whole screenful, says stuff like:
ebx: 40 edx: d2b15de0 ecx: d9042180 eax: 0 (Top line on screen)
trp: ...
efl: ...
d2b15874 unix: die:die+a7 ...
...
Syncing file systems... done
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Without the board in, it installs great. Plug then card in, it works great (In a certain disk configuration, as noted in another message).
One hint may be that the P2B-F has all PCI slots sharing one interrupt. So perhaps the installed system can handle this, but the installer kernel can't? I have tried different slots and different orders, even though it should not matter since they all share one interrupt. It doesn't matter. Same result.
Installs and works fine with an IOGEAR USB card in the same slot. The USB chip is painted over so you can't read what it is.
I assume that this should be considered a bug to fix, but I would also be interested in any insights or ideas.