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

[Gary Mills]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:48:01AM -0700, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes, but with the same result: it hangs early in the boot process.

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