I recently downloaded SmartOS and tried running it on my HP ProLiant N40L, but it always fails on boot.
After dd'ing the image to the USB stick, I plug it into the internal USB header and turn the machine on. After selecting from GRUB, it displays the following:
, bss=0x0
It sits there for 2-4 minutes, then finally boots the OS and displays the following:
WARNING: Couldn't read ACPI SRAT table from BIOS. lgrp support will be limited to one group.
SunOS Release 5.11 Version joyent_20120614T184600Z 64-bit
Copyright (c) 2010-2012, Joyent Inc. All rights reserved.
WARNING: kvm: no hardware support
After that, it hangs. I've tried this with two different USB sticks.
I've seen some mentions on the SmartOS website about people running it on an N40L, booting from USB, so maybe it's just broken hardware? Has anyone gotten this working?