[oi-dev] [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE (bloody-20250709) usb image hangs

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM Atiq Rahman <atiqcx at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Even though subject is: OmniOS CE (bloody-20250709) usb image hangs,
> please note that stable release r151054 is also broken, repros same result*
>
> Hi Dan,
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> > I assume you did see “Booting..” text, then it cleared the screen and
> thats it.
> Yep, I did see that (a few lines including booting) before it showed the
> cursor only screen. (photo: p1)
>

That looks exactly like what happens when the system decides that the
console ought
to go somewhere else, such as a serial port. (I've had reports of this
happening with
OmniOS on some cloud providers.)

So, what does loader think OsConsole is set to?


> > ok framebuffer get
> output on photo (p2)
>
> ok show efi-version
> 2.90
>
> > BIOS mode (CSM) if the system does support it.
> It doesn't support CSM.
>
> > ok set boot_resolution=“800x600”
> > ok set prom_debug=true
> > ok set kbm_debug=true
> > ok boot -kv
> same result (big cursor on top left). Native screen resolution is 4K
> (3840x2400). I also tried other 16:10 resolutions, for example, 1920x1200
> neither of which led to a successful installer screen.
>
> > see if there is more visible output after boot command.
> Nope
>
> Unfortunately, I am getting busier. I will probably stop experimenting with
> OmniOS for now and stick to the OI text installer. I thought, for me,
> OmniOS,
> OI don't make any difference; I have no GUI anyways! So I thought would try
> OmniOS but this installer image is a blocker. I might give it a shot on
> the next
> OmniOS release.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Atiq
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM Toomas Soome via illumos-developer <
> developer at lists.illumos.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 27. Aug 2025, at 04:40, Atiq Rahman <atiqcx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> (changing subject because this time I only tried bloody image;
>> motivation: more up to date image in case it fixes things)
>>
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for the replies on this boot image issue.
>>
>> So I booted omnios-bloody-20250709. Answers below,
>>
>> > 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?
>> yep (photo 1 attached)
>>
>>
>> btw: lsdev -v will show pool details as well (including bootfs dataset
>> name).
>>
>> > 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.
>> yep, this is working as well (photo 2 attached)
>>
>>
>>
>> btw: checksums are sha1 (and boot_archive hash does match with one from
>> boot_archive.hash).
>>
>>
>> > 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)
>>
>>
>> ok, this is not good. I assume you did see “Booting..” text, then it
>> cleared the screen and thats it.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>> omnios devs did decide to use fixed size screens (not defaulting on what
>> hardware has):
>>
>> /boot/defaults/loader.conf:
>>
>>
>> loader_resolution="800x600"     # The resolution of the loader menu screen
>>
>> loader_font="10x18"             # The font used for the loader menu screen
>>
>> boot_resolution="1024x768"      # The resolution set before booting the
>> system
>>
>> boot_font="10x18"               # The font selected before booting the
>> system
>>
>>
>> To try to diagnose it a bit more, lets try to tell it to not change the
>> resolution:
>> ...
>> As you are running UEFI mode, try booting with BIOS mode (CSM) if the
>> system does support it.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> rgds,
>> toomas
>>
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