On May 5, 2017 4:41:20 PM GMT+03:00, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: >A friend of mine has an Apple MacBook Pro Retina (4k) andhe would like >to install OpenIndiana on it. For some reason,it is next to impossible >to boot the system from a DVD. Sohe tried to boot OI from a USB flash >disk. The system stopswith the message BTX halted and the screen looks >like this >https://imgur.com/ZgFKWhs >I have checked on the Web this machine and it seems it hasUSB 3 ports. >From my own experience the USB 3 support isbroken, so does it make >sense to assume that the system cannot boot because of the broken USB 3 >support? BTW, Ithink that hipster is quite experimental yet the new >Xorgbits work just fine. I have tested on systems with NVIDIAcards, ATI >RADEON, and Intel and all work just fine. however,why did you include >the completely broken USB 3 support? >A.S. > >---------------------- >Apostolos Syropoulos >Xanthi, Greece >_______________________________________________ >openindiana-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Hello, First of all - i've got no experience with modern Mac hardware so anyone *with* experience is more authoritative on this stage ;) Second, did the friend try the recent 2017.04 release of OI Hipster (out this week)? Finally, AFAIK each snapshot "release" includes the latest (at its time) illumos-gate OS/Net "kernel" parts that work for some HW and might not work for others - especially if noone tried it before so there was nothing to fix or improve. Jim -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Redmi Android _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
