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

[Atiq Rahman]

Hi,
Thank you.

But, this feels like a mystery to me. How did the OI text installer load
just
fine without this patch but the OmniOS image couldn't!


On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM Joshua M. Clulow via oi-dev <
oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 20:56, Atiq Rahman <atiqcx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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)
> >
> > > ok framebuffer get
> > output on photo (p2)
>
> Based on the photograph, it seems like your framebuffer base address
> is 0x7a_1000_0000 which is above the 32-bit boundary.  When you enable
> "prom_debug" and "kbm_debug", there is some early boot code which
> can't use a 64-bit address to write to the display.  This ultimately
> causes the writes to go off into space, and may collide with other
> memory that upsets the boot process.
>
> This is described in a ticket I'm working on at the moment for another
> system that has this problem:
>
>     17548 early boot framebuffer reach exceeds grasp
>         https://www.illumos.org/issues/17548
>         https://code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/4350
>
> Should hopefully be finished soon!
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Joshua M. Clulow
>
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