i would start even more conservatively and disable speed step in the bios first and then more on to the other suggestions. i am not a fan of speedstep in general.
j. Sent from Jasons' hand held On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Bryan N Iotti <ironsides.med...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe you could try disabling ACPI in BIOS if possible, or otherwise use the > acpi-user-options=0x2 at boot. > > Read here for more info on disabling ACPI on boot: > > https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/configuring_solaris_acpi_at_boot > > BTW and OT, I hadn't even thought that attaching an image to message here > might have been bad etiquette/netiquette, so I apologize for that. > > Bryan > > > On 02/13/12 06:39 PM, Geoff Simmons wrote: >>>> From: "Geoff Simmons"<ge...@uplex.de> >>> A colleague attempted to boot oi_151a from CD on an HP EliteBook 8560w >>> laptop: >>> >>> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-321957-64295-3740645-4307559-5071171.html >>> >>> ... the variant with Intel i7-2670QM. He got an immediate kernel panic >> I've now booted (from an oi151a CD) with the kernel debugger switched on >> and was able to get a stack trace -- the crash apparently happens in a >> call to wrmsr() within speedstep_pstate_transition(), caused by an event >> related to power management (cpupm). >> >> Since I have no way of saving the stack trace, I had to take a picture >> of it. In the hopes that attaching photos is not a netiquette violation >> on this list, I'll try to send it along with this message (it's a B/W >> PNG with about 23KB, so it shouldn't eat too much bandwidth -- my >> apologies if this was a no-no). >> >> As it happens, it appears to be exactly the same stack trace that I see >> when trying to boot Solaris 11 on the same machine (using the kernel >> debugger). >> >> So it would appear that the problem has something to do with power >> management, and might be related to some known bugs concerning cpupm: >> >> https://www.illumos.org/issues/423 >> https://www.illumos.org/issues/1333 >> >> But the solutions/workarounds involve editing /etc/power.conf. I'm >> trying to get OI to boot up in the first place, and I couldn't edit a >> file on CD anyway. What I want to do is install OI, so I'll need to be >> able to boot an installer before I can get to fixing up the installed >> configuration. >> >> Any ideas? Does this warrant filing a new issue at illumos.org? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Geoff >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss