It must be the day for these sort of discussions :-) Neal Pollack wrote: > Chris Quenelle wrote: >> I'm trying to boot the Indiana live CD on a Toshiba Satellite M45-S355 >> laptop (512Meg) >> I tried all three options (cmdline, no ACPI, regular) and all of them result >> in a hang after the first three lines of text in boot screen. Specifically, >> after >> >> SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_75 32-bit >> Copyright blah blah >> Use is subject to blah blah >> >> I'm not really solaris/laptop savvy. Are there any obvious things >> to try first? >> > > at least 768meg of RAM :-(
Not so fast! (literally :-) - I got my 256mb Dell Optiplex Gx110 to boot from the Indiana Live CD right into the GNOME desktop. Granted I wasn't able to install it, but it did load the operating system and the system was vaguely responsive. Dan Mick has some gentle hints about how to start poking about on systems to see why they're not booting http://blogs.sun.com/dmick/entry/diagnosing_kernel_hangs_panics_with I'm sure others on the list have further ideas... cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf
