I wanted to try out NexentaOS (aka GNU/Solaris) on my laptop (a Thinkpad T43). But when I tried to install it, it got stuck at the “Detecting available partitions” stage – OK, not stuck, actually, it just seemed to be going round and round in some kind of infinite loop. Anyway, Googling brings me nothing, except for vague hints that it may have something to do with the fact that my hard drive is on a SATA bus. Someone else got OpenSolaris to work on a T43, so I guess I’ll try that out, just as soon as I can download all the CDs.
[...] In my previous post I complained about Nexenta not working on my ThinkPad. For the sake of fairness, I should say that that was Alpha 6, and the Alpha 7 which has now been released does in fact install successfully. Having installed it, however, I have removed it again to make space to try out Arch Linux. [...]