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

[Gregory Youngblood]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Gary Mills wrote:

> 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.
> 

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> 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?


Can you install from USB flash drive? That's how I've typically done it when I didn't have CD/DVD drive on a machine.