Re: [osol-discuss] Problems installing OpenSolaris

[Che Kristo]

Which laptop? tell us the modelthen we will be able to look at whether
it is supported or not

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Ashlee Naidoo  wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm new to open solaris and am trying to install opensolaris on my acer
> laptop, but each time i try, it loads the little dots and then just stays on
> the black screen with the sun information and nothing happens. Please can
> someone tell me how to fix this? I'm trying to move from ubuntu to
> opensolaris?
>
> Thanks
> Ashlee
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Re: [osol-discuss] Problems installing OpenSolaris -Acer Laptop

[Paul Harper]

I have an Acer Extensa 4630z laptop. I suspect you have a similar problem to me.

It only boots if you edit the grub boot kernel line;

1. When it boots and you see grub press "e" to edit.
2. Press "e" again on the "kernel" line
3. At the end of the kernel line after a  type: -v -B disable-ehci=true
4. Enter
5. Type "b" and it should boot. 

OpenSolaris works brilliantly on the Acer Aspire One netbook. It seems to be 
their other laptops that don't do too well. 

Let people know the exact  model of your laptop. If you are dual booting you 
could also send the results of the Device Driver Utility.

http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/getstart/devdriver.html

You might want to file a bug:

http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/
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Re: [osol-discuss] Problems installing OpenSolaris

[Vic Webster]

I'm a total newb myself, however if you can't boot it from the CD then I'm 
guessing your hardware isn't supported. Although you can take my opinion with a 
grain of salt.

I also noticed that when I installed it on my Macbook Pro, it had to be 
installed on the first available partition (which is actually the second 
partition as the first is reserved for Mac OS X boot something or rather).  I 
had to change the id of the first partition to AF which - as I understand - 
openSolaris does't recognise. If I tried on one of the other partitions, the 
installer would fail with a fdisk error. Or if I installed it on the first av. 
partition and then created another partition in front of that, or gave the 
first Mac parition an id that OS can recognise (like EE) then it wouldn't boot.
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[osol-discuss] Problems installing OpenSolaris

[Ashlee Naidoo]

Hi guys,

I'm new to open solaris and am trying to install opensolaris on my acer laptop, 
but each time i try, it loads the little dots and then just stays on the black 
screen with the sun information and nothing happens. Please can someone tell me 
how to fix this? I'm trying to move from ubuntu to opensolaris?

Thanks
Ashlee
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