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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/12/25 03:53, Atiq wrote:<br>
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<div>First, huge applauds to the OpenIndiana team for the high
quality work they do. 🩷 Second, apologies, as I have plethora
of n00b questions ahead.<br>
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<div><b>Problem</b>: System restarts in few seconds; doesn't show
BSD boot loader menu!<br>
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have tried 3 image versions from 2025-06 (ref,<span> </span><a
class="relative pointer-events-auto a cursor-pointer underline moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/hipster/isos/hipster/20250606"
rel="noopener nofollow ugc"
style="color: rgb(148, 160, 167); text-decoration: underline; font-size: 1em; position: relative; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; --darkreader-inline-color: #b8b0a3;"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/hipster/isos/hipster/20250606</a><span> </span>)<br>
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style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding-left: 2rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">gui<br>
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">text<br>
</p>
</li>
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">minimal<br>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p
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am curious what's happening during the boot on this Asus Laptop.
I dd them into USB,<br>
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<div><code
style="border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 1px 3px; background: rgb(246, 246, 246); font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace; font-size: 90%; --darkreader-inline-border-top: #3a4144; --darkreader-inline-border-right: #3a4144; --darkreader-inline-border-bottom: #3a4144; --darkreader-inline-border-left: #3a4144; --darkreader-inline-bgimage: initial; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #141718;">sudo
dd bs=4M if=./OI-hipster-gui-20250606.usb of=/dev/sda
status=progress && sync</code><br>
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<div>I restart to enter BIOS. I disable secure boot for
OpenIndiana Live Image from USB.<br>
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<div>However, All of them demonstrate the same behavior.<br>
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<ul
style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding-left: 2rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">I
enter Boot Menu Options from BIOS pressing F8.<br>
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<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">I
select the USB drive with OpenIndiana Image<br>
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<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">It
doesn't show anything on screen, 4-5 seconds later system
reboots.<br>
</p>
</li>
<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;margin-bottom:0px;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">I
re-enter to BIOS Boot Menu to see the USB drive is gone.
And, it never comes back until I dd the image into usb drive
again! (screenshot attached)<br>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">1.
What might be the reason it's not even booting into text mode?
The Text Mode doesn't require GPU driver. Right?<br>
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style="margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">.
BIOS<br>
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style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding-left: 2rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">doesn't
have option to disable HyperThreading<br>
</p>
</li>
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">doesn't
have option to disable Virtualization etc. either.<br>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">Even
though OpenIndiana hardware compatibility list doesn't cover
this Notebook / Laptop I am interested how to debug such issues.
For example, on Linux during image boot we can press Esc so it
shows what it's doing and any error with details it's
encouterning.<br>
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style="margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;"><b
style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;">Hardware Spec</b><br>
</p>
<ul
style="margin-bottom: 1rem; padding-left: 2rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">
<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">Laptop
Model: Asus P16 H7606WV<br>
</p>
</li>
<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">CPU:
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M<br>
</p>
</li>
<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">iGPU:
[AMD/ATI] Strix [Radeon 880M / 890M] (rev c1)<br>
</p>
</li>
<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">dGPU: GeForce
RTX 4060 Max-Q<br>
</p>
</li>
<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">System
Memory: 32GB<br>
</p>
</li>
<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">Display(s):
Notebook's Built in Display only (no external display)<br>
</p>
</li>
<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">OpenIndiana
Image Version: *-20250606.usb<br>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">These
images do boot fine on an older laptop with Intel CPU so that
ensures the image is not corrupt on the USB drive (I confirmed
sha256 checksum before writing images as well)!<br>
</p>
<p
style="margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(184, 196, 205); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #d4cdc4; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">I
was wondering if Asus had a way to show boot logs in case of
errors. So I posted on sub<span> </span><a
class="relative pointer-events-auto a cursor-pointer underline"
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/1lu6wby"
rel="noopener nofollow ugc"
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moz-do-not-send="true">/r/asus</a> as well. I haven't found a
solution yet.<br>
</p>
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<div><span class="groups+newtopic:compose-highlight"
style="background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;"><span
class="groups+newtopic:compose-colour"
style="color: rgb(183, 202, 212); --darkreader-inline-color: #bcd4e2;"><span
class="groups+newtopic:compose-font"
style="font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif"><span
class="groups+newtopic:compose-size"
style="font-size:14px">2. I have grub2 installed on my
system (from fedora 42). Is there a way I can load the
live boot image from USB drive using manual commands
from GRUB?</span></span></span></span><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><span class="groups+newtopic:compose-highlight"
style="background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;"><span
class="groups+newtopic:compose-colour"
style="color: rgb(183, 202, 212); --darkreader-inline-color: #bcd4e2;"><span
class="groups+newtopic:compose-font"
style="font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif"><span
class="groups+newtopic:compose-size"
style="font-size:14px">3. Since I have Nvidia as
discrete GPU, wondering if there is a way I could add
the latest nvidia driver for that.</span></span></span></span><br>
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style="margin-bottom: 1rem; color: rgb(183, 202, 212); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-wrap-mode: wrap; background-color: rgb(16, 18, 20); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; --darkreader-inline-color: #bcd4e2; --darkreader-inline-bgcolor: #020303;">Regarding
the screenshots,<br>
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<li style="margin-top:0.25rem;">
<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">I
plan to open an issue on<span> </span><a
class="relative pointer-events-auto a cursor-pointer underline moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl"
rel="noopener nofollow ugc"
style="color: rgb(148, 160, 167); text-decoration: underline; font-size: 1em; position: relative; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; --darkreader-inline-color: #b8b0a3;"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl</a><span> </span>regarding
the device touching the USB live image as the boot fails
(after first boot attempt it never appears again on Boot
Menu), live image on USB drive becomes corrupt / unbootable
as soon as the system restarts (found by trying to boot an
old machine with that).<br>
</p>
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<p
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;">Fedora
is an installation on Internal HDD, not from external USB<br>
</p>
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<p>Hi!</p>
<p>Just to be 100% shure, you use bs=4M, have you verified it does
not truncate the image on the stick ?<br>
There are options to dd to ensure that.</p>
<p>You might want to give the latest 2024.10 text image a try.</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
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