<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM Atiq Rahman <<a href="mailto:atiqcx@gmail.com">atiqcx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i>Even though subject is: OmniOS CE (bloody-20250709) usb image hangs, please note that stable release r151054 is also broken, repros same result</i></div><div><br></div><div>Hi Dan,<br></div><div>Thanks for all the help.</div><div><br></div><div>> I assume you did see “Booting..” text, then it cleared the screen and thats it.<br clear="all"></div><div>Yep, I did see that (a few lines including booting) before it showed the cursor only screen. (photo: p1)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That looks exactly like what happens when the system decides that the console ought <br>to go somewhere else, such as a serial port. (I've had reports of this happening with<br>OmniOS on some cloud providers.)<br><br></div><div>So, what does loader think OsConsole is set to?<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>> ok framebuffer get</div><div>output on photo (p2)</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Hack">ok show efi-version</font></div><div><font face="Hack">2.90</font></div><br></div><div>> BIOS mode (CSM) if the system does support it.</div><div>It doesn't support CSM.</div><div><br></div><div>> ok set boot_resolution=“800x600”<br>> ok set prom_debug=true<br>> ok set kbm_debug=true<br>> ok boot -kv</div><div>same result (big cursor on top left). Native screen resolution is 4K</div><div>(3840x2400). I also tried other 16:10 resolutions, for example, 1920x1200</div><div>neither of which led to a successful installer screen.</div><div><br></div><div>> see if there is more visible output after boot command.</div><div>Nope</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, I am getting busier. I will probably stop experimenting with<br>OmniOS for now and stick to the OI text installer. I thought, for me, OmniOS,</div><div>OI don't make any difference; I have no GUI anyways! So I thought would try<br>OmniOS but this installer image is a blocker. I might give it a shot on the next</div><div>OmniOS release.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_-1418537020860513410_m_7162846794933834862_m_3266197657534306384_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Sincerely,</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="m_-1418537020860513410_m_7162846794933834862_m_3266197657534306384_SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Atiq</span></a></p><p></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM Toomas Soome via illumos-developer <<a href="mailto:developer@lists.illumos.org" target="_blank">developer@lists.illumos.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br id="m_-1418537020860513410m_7162846794933834862m_3266197657534306384m_8944931251873351649lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 27. Aug 2025, at 04:40, Atiq Rahman <<a href="mailto:atiqcx@gmail.com" target="_blank">atiqcx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>(changing subject because this time I only tried bloody image; motivation: more up to date image in case it fixes things)</div><div><br></div><div>Hi,</div><div>Thanks for the replies on this boot image issue.</div><div><br></div><div>So I booted omnios-bloody-20250709. Answers below,</div><div><br></div><div>> 1. do you get boot loader operational - that is, get menu on screen, press esc to get to ok prompt, are commands like ls, lsdev working?</div><div>yep (photo 1 attached)</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>btw: lsdev -v will show pool details as well (including bootfs dataset name).</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>> 2. from loader ok prompt, enter: start — this will load kernel and modules, use lsmod -s to check list of loaded modules and their checksums.</div><div>yep, this is working as well (photo 2 attached)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>btw: checksums are sha1 (and boot_archive hash does match with one from boot_archive.hash).</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div>> 3. enter: boot -kv -B prom_debug=true,kbm_debug=true — this should spam a console a lot, but if we get the hung system, we will have some idea where this is happening. (photo 3 attached)</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ok, this is not good. I assume you did see “Booting..” text, then it cleared the screen and thats it.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>No spamming on the screen. Like before it immediately brings up that blank screen with a big cursor on top of the left of the screen.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, fonts (bootloader menu) are zoomed out looking bigger on the screen on the initial screen. The OI Hipster bootloader menu appears more natural than this. (photo 4)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>omnios devs did decide to use fixed size screens (not defaulting on what hardware has):</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Hack;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">/boot/defaults/loader.conf:</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Hack;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Hack;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">loader_resolution="800x600" # The resolution of the loader menu screen</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Hack;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">loader_font="10x18" # The font used for the loader menu screen</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Hack;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">boot_resolution="1024x768" # The resolution set before booting the system</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Hack;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">boot_font="10x18" # The font selected before booting the system</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div><br><div>To try to diagnose it a bit more, lets try to tell it to not change the resolution:</div><div>...</div><div><span style="font-family:Hack">As you are running UEFI mode, try booting with BIOS mode (CSM) if the system does support it.</span></div><div><font face="Hack"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Hack"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The problem with such issue is about to get the information out of the system. You have no serial ports, so the only option right now is to get the output on screen.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>rgds,</div><div>toomas</div></blockquote></div></div></div><div id="m_-1418537020860513410topicbox-footer" style="margin:10px 0px 0px;border-top:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15);border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.15);padding:7px 0px">
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