Hi Tony,
Do you have a bugstar id for that please?
Thanks,
Edward O'Callaghan.
2009/1/13 Tony Reeves <tonyr60 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/1/13 Henry Pepper <henrypepr at gmail.com>:
>> Hello
>>
>> I just got a Toshiba Satellite Pro A300D-152, unfortunately it wont run past
>> the Kernel banner.
>> Any ideas on what I can do to trouble shoot this?
>>
>> When booting from the snv 105 DVD, it will.
>> Display the GRUB menu.
>> I select Solaris Express.
>> It loads the kernel ('prints the dots '.')
>> Then display the kernel banner
>> --
>> SunOS Release 5-11 Version snv_105 64-bit
>> Copyright ....
>> Use is sibject to licesne terms
>> --
>> The DVD spins down, that is it, the Nothing else happens.
>>
>
> This system has an AMD Turion X2 processor. There are Timing issues
> with that cpu.
>
> I had the same sort of problem with my old Asaus laptop with the same
> cpu. Two things worked for me...
>
> Try bouncing a Ctrl or shift key. This triggers interupts which will
> wake the kernel, this needs to happen until the NVidia or other
> graphics driver loads.
>
> I also found that around 30% of the time the kernel would get stuck at
> the point you indicate and nothing would wake it. A power off and
> back on would usually work.
>
>
>
> --
> Tony Reeves
> Christchurch
> New Zealand
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