I'm trying to boot the 2008.05 live CD on two of my notebooks. Each is failing badly and I was hoping someone might have advice on boot options, etc. that I can try.
1) Acer 3680-2862, i943GML chipset, upgraded from Celeron M 440 to Core Duo T2250. The CD boots, but shortly after displaying the copyright notice and before displaying the detecting devices message, it locks hard. 2) Sony Vaio PCG-K37, 3.2ghz P4m with an Ali chipset. The CD boots, but something goes wrong when detecting devices. After a long delay, I get two messages about problems detecting the UARTs for asy0 and asy1; I assume that this must be a problem with the BIOS and/or chipset reporting serial ports that don't actually exist. Eventually, I get an error that the console service can not be started and get dropped to the prompt for maintenance mode. Do either of these problems look familiar? Any pointers to a good FAQ/HOWTO? Thanks... John This message posted from opensolaris.org
