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 Opensolaris or OpenIndiana. I did file > > an Opensolaris bug report (CR 6919054) in 2010 for build 130. It was > > just closed by Oracle, marked `Not Reproducible'. I assume they > > didn't have the correct laptop to test with. I thought I'd try the > > just-released Solaris 11 live DVD to see if they had fixed something. > > This DVD and drive do boot another laptop. > > ---->8 snip 8<--- > > > I believe that the problem is with USB driver, or perhaps higher up > > the driver chain. This is very difficult to confirm because USB is > > the only way to access this laptop, other than the keyboard and mouse. > > Is there anything more I can do? > > Can you install from USB flash drive? That's how I've typically done > it when I didn't have CD/DVD drive on a machine.
Yes, but with the same result: it hangs early in the boot process. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss