Its possible that this is fixed with one or more of the newer changes that are
in illumos. I'm not sure if OpenIndiana is updating on a frequent enough basis
to have seen all the fixes that have been made for more recent Intel hardware.
- Garrett
On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Robbie Crash wrote:
> I think it's the probably motherboard chipset, not the CPU. I've successfully
> installed OI on an i3, i5 and i7. However, I wasn't ever able to get anything
> to get booted up on five different Z68 based boards. I got to loading ISA
> drivers and then failed. Swapping the motherboards out for P67 based ones but
> keeping all other parts, no problem. Googling around I found that it looks
> like the chipset was too new for OI, and that support would be implemented
> eventually.
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 08:10, Andrew Watkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I thought I would check the state of play with OpenIndiana and SmartOS
> working (booting) on desktops with Intel 5i chips or at least on Intel DQ67SW
> boards.
>
> Old bug reports:
> fail to boot installer with H55 chipset with core i3
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/352
> and
> Installation on Intel H55 chipset with Core i3 does not work with osol_134
> https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15976
>
> I tried the latest SmartOS ISO to see if any changes have happened but the
> boot process failed in the same position. I have the same problem with the
> last OpenIndiana iso install image and the old Solaris 11 Express.
> Strangely Solaris 11 now works, which did take be by surprise, so it would be
> good if Illumos kernel get fix this problem.
>
> Here is the debug output of the boot process (Intel DQ67SW):
> -------
>
> PCI Express-device: pci8086,38@1a, ehci0
> ehci0 is /pci@0,0/pci8086,38@1a
>
> PCI Express-device: pci8086,38@1d, ehci1
> ehci1 is /pci@0,0/pci8086,38@1d
>
> load 'drv/uhci' id 92 loaded @ 0xfffffffff7c38000/0xffffffffc0004ac0 size
> 63672/488
> installing uhci, module id 92.
>
> load 'drv/ohci' id 93 loaded @ 0xfffffffff7c4a000/0xffffffffc0004ca8 size
> 77904/488
> installing ohci, module id 93.
>
> ------hangs here-----------
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> --
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> http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/
>
>
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