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

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> On 11/11/11 10:36, Gary Mills wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>       I have a suggestion, if possible, remove the harddrive from
> laptop, find a connector if needed to connect the laptop's  harddrive to
> a desktop system that has  a dvd, install solaris 11,
>       then reinstall the harddrive back into the laptop.
>

How about just stopping by the local electronic store and buying an
external DVD writer? They are relatively cheap. I bought an ASUS model for
about $35. Saves me the problem of dealing with installing from Flash
drives.

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