<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21. nov 2016, at 13:12, Jean-Pierre André <<a href="mailto:jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr" class="">jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Michael Kruger wrote:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">On 11/21/2016 05:44 AM, Toomas Soome wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 21. nov 2016, at 12:39, Jean-Pierre André<br class=""><<a href="mailto:jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr" class="">jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Aurélien Larcher wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hello,<br class="">the download page points to the following instructions which are<br class="">outdated:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+OpenIndiana" class="">https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+OpenIndiana</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I have a computer on which a boot option like<br class="">-B acpi-user-options=0x2 is required.<br class=""><br class="">I have copied the latest image to a USB key, and I am<br class="">sure I did it correctly, as I have used it to install on<br class="">another computer.<br class=""><br class="">I could not find where to insert the required option on<br class="">the USB key. I could not find where the new loader is<br class="">and where its boot options are. The grub files are on<br class="">/boot/grub but I cannot find an initialized menu, so<br class="">I cannot even tell which loader is in use.<br class=""><br class="">What am I supposed to do ?<br class=""><br class="">Jean-Pierre<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">echo “acpi-user-options=2” > usbmountpoint/boot/conf.d/acpi<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Ok, will try</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">this will make it default for your stick.<br class=""><br class="">rgds,<br class="">toomas<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">The docs website has been updated with screen shots of the new boot<br class="">loader, which show the various boot options.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#booting-openindiana-installer-media" class="">http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#booting-openindiana-installer-media</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">In the boot options screen, there are 4 different ACPI settings.<br class="">Would this achieve the same thing?<br class=""></blockquote><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Are you not assuming the user gets a screen with options ?</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">(I only get a "I" on top left of screen).</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ou, you have usb image, trying to boot and never get to loader screen itself, only have spinner at upper left corner? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if so, the acpi options wont make any difference there yet, those are for kernel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">if the first spinner appears, you have the boot loader stage1 running, and it should start the loader itself. If not, reboot (as its probably hung or something), when spinner appears, press a key and you should get the prompt.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">from it you can verify what devices are visible by entering on boot: status</div><div class="">and to see if it is able to list current boot directory content boot: ?boot</div><div class="">note the prompt there is really limited and you can not use arrow keys.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but thats just for very basic diagnostics, just to verify what your bios did make available… if the loader itself is never started, your secondary option is to check with cd, and other than that will require more debugging and/or more recent build depending on what is the root cause. Absolutely no messages from the loader does smell pretty bad, it means something is gone wrong at very early… </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">rgds,</div><div class="">toomas</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>