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

[Gregory Youngblood]

On Nov 11, 2011, at 11:36 AM, 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 had that problem as well, but on a Lenovo S10-3t netbook with an Atom processor. It runs OI just fine (other than wifi problems, despite showing no errors with ddu) but won't boot Sol11. My Lenovo T61p (T7700 core 2 duo) on the other hand booted Soll11 from USB flash drive no problem. It's also my primary OI box. I didn't install Sol11 on there, just testing to make sure it would boot.