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

2011-11-11 Thread Gary Mills
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,

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

2011-11-11 Thread Gary Mills
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

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

2011-11-11 Thread Edward Martinez
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

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

2011-11-11 Thread LinuxBSDos.com
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

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

2011-11-11 Thread Gregory Youngblood
On Nov 11, 2011, at 11:36 AM, 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,

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

2011-11-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
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

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

2011-11-11 Thread 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@1, cpudrv0 /fw/cpu@1:

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

2011-11-11 Thread 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

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

2011-11-11 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/11/11 09:30, Gary Mills wrote: Using the text console, this was the result, after the banner: WARNING: iommu: Calculated AGAW (39) is outside valid limits [30,12] specified by Vt-d spec and magaw /* hung */ Just as a long shot: Are there any bios menu options to

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

2011-11-11 Thread Gregory Youngblood
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.