OpenSolaris Laptop Woes
I went to Washington state over the Christmas holidays. I decided to install OpenSolaris b129 prior to the trip. It installed just fine and I got mplayer and fluendo dvd player working well. However, I decided to install mplayer from the sunfreepacks.com site. Not a good decision. Yesterday, my laptop refused to fully boot. I could get to a command-line interface with / mounted. However, no other filesystems would mount. After some tips from the nice people at freenode/#opensolaris, I was able to backup all my precious data and install OpenSolaris b130. The freenode crew also taught me how to use OpenSolaris's SFE. I'm now compiling mplayer from source using SFE and will do the same with VLC. I fly back home tomorrow and will be excited to see if mplayer (and especially VLC) works.
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I figured out that the laptop wasn't booting because OpenSolaris demands that either NWAM or manual network configuration be enabled. You can't completely disable networking and have a bootable OpenSolaris install.
Try it out for yourself:
pfexec svcadm disable network/physical:nwam && pfexec svcadm disable network/physical:default. Don't worry, it doesn't actually break the system into a non-repairable state. Upon reboot, just re-enable whatever you were using (NWAM or manual config).