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

[Gary Mills]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:05:02PM -0800, Edward Martinez wrote:
> 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.
> >
>      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.

Yes, but I want to find the cause of the problem.  I doubt that that
will help.

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