[laptop-discuss] Re: Dell Latitude D800 Won't Boot with SXCR51

[Jürgen Keil]

> It's been a long ride from Bld18->Bld50 on my
> Dual-Boot Windows XP and OpenSolaris Laptop.
> Unfortunately, booting of SXCR51 only gets to
>  GRUB...bootloader appears to be broken?

How does it fail, exactly?

Does it report any error messages?

Does it hang during boot?  Does it hang before GRUB
is loaded?  Or does it hang when GRUB loads the 
Solaris kernel?


> Starting at about Bld-48, a non-graphical
> installation was required, due to nvidia driver...but
> now with SXCR51 it just won't load the kernal?
> 
> Is it time to move to a 64-bit machine?   :)

I don't think that would a solution.  (BIOS?) Problems like that
can happen on 64-bit machines, too.
 
 
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