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

Gregory Youngblood gregory at youngblood.me
Sat Nov 12 05:50:29 UTC 2011


On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> On 11/11/11 11:36, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Solaris 11 only includes the 64-bit kernel, so if that's an older 32-bit Atom,
> it can't work.

Yeah, that's what I figured. I was primarily testing to make sure the USB flash drive would boot. It did - or at least it tried - so I knew it would probably work on the real machine later. :)


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