On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:40:27AM -0500, James Cornell wrote: > Try disabling ACPI on boot. There's another thread with T60 owners > who had to do this to get it to boot and it sounds like it's panicing.
>From that first menu, how does one go about disabling ACPI? Could someone point me to some (fairly basic) documentation on how to start the boot-CD kernel manually, i.e., BEFORE Solaris is installed? The hard drive has been zeroed. Do I need to start fdisk (how?), or does the install CD get the hdd ready automagically? Thanks much. -- henry n. > On Aug 17, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Henry Nelson wrote: > > First time to try OpenSolaris, but I can't seem to get the install > > CD to boot up. > > > >> From the initial screen to choose the type of boot (OS), I've tried > > the 2008.05 default, or the one under it with a command line prompt, > > but both of them stop at a blinking underline character after printing > > the next three lines: > > SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_86 32-bit > > Copyright 1983-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. > > Use is subject to license terms. > > _ > > This is on a Fujitsu FMV-Biblo MF7/60R with 256MB of memory. > > > > Thanks for any help, pointers, etc. Please keep me in the CC if this > > is some list. I just got this address of off "http://www.opensolaris.org/ > > os/project/indiana/resources/rn3/" _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
