[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 or OpenIndiana won't boot on my Acer laptop

[Gary Mills]

I have an Acer AS3810T-6827 that has no internal DVD drive.  I can
boot and install Ubuntu from a USB-attached DVD drive, but this has
never worked for any build of Opensolaris or OpenIndiana.  I did file
an Opensolaris bug report (CR 6919054) in 2010 for build 130.  It was
just closed by Oracle, marked `Not Reproducible'.  I assume they
didn't have the correct laptop to test with.  I thought I'd try the
just-released Solaris 11 live DVD to see if they had fixed something.
This DVD and drive do boot another laptop.

Using the text console, this was the result, after the banner:

    WARNING: iommu: Calculated AGAW (39) is outside valid limits [30,12]
        specified by Vt-d spec and magaw
    /* hung */

When I boot with `-v', it gets further:

    WARNING: iommu: Calculated AGAW (39) is outside valid limits [30,12]
        specified by Vt-d spec and magaw
    ...
    acpinex0 at root
    acpinex: cpu at 1, cpudrv0
    /fw/cpu at 1: (cpudrv0) online
    pseudo-device: dld0
    dld0 is /pseudo/dld at 0
    /* hung */

I believe that the problem is with USB driver, or perhaps higher up
the driver chain.  This is very difficult to confirm because USB is
the only way to access this laptop, other than the keyboard and mouse.
Is there anything more I can do?

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-Gary Mills-		-refurb-		-Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-