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

[Gary Mills]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:30:49AM -0600, Gary Mills wrote:
> 
> 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?

Is there a driver handoff someplace?  It must boot first from the BIOS,
but somewhere along the way it must switch to the kernel driver.  That
might be where the problem lies.

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