[illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 20:40 +0530, kunal ghosh wrote:
> Hi all , 
> I have been trying a lot to get OI to boot on my dell studio 1450.
> Having done a bit of homework i tried disabling the bge drivers and
> some suggested me to disable ehci
> but none worked.
> 
> I have tried booting OI with the -v kernel flag and it stops at 
> "audio0 is /pseudo/audio at 0" after identifying the processor and other
> hardware.
> 
> can someone please suggest me as to how to diagnose a boot problem
> like this ?

Boot with -k after the unix command line, then press "F1-A" together on
boot when it seems to hang.  From that point you can use $C from the
kmdb prompt (assuming that it is still accessible via kmdb) and we can
debug further from the results.

	- Garrett

> -- 
> regards
> -------
> Kunal Ghosh
> Dept of Computer Sc. & Engineering.
> Sir MVIT
> Bangalore,India
> 
> permalink: member.acm.org/~kunal.t2
> Blog:kunalghosh.wordpress.com
> Website:www.kunalghosh.net46.net
> 
> 
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