[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI_147 upgrade to OI_148 on Lenovo Z60t problem

John Connett jrc at skylon.demon.co.uk
Thu Dec 23 15:10:36 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 15:26 +0100, Ewald Ertl wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:18 PM, John Connett <jrc at skylon.demon.co.uk>wrote:
> 
> > Completed an apparently successful update from OI_147 using:
> >
> >    pfexec pkg image-update -v
> >
> > However, when attempting to start OI_148 the system hangs at the
> > "Hostname: xxx" stage with no activity on the disk light.  Any
> > suggestions on how to investigate or fix this?
> >
> I haven't attempted this in OpenIndian, but I think it should still work to
> use the -v
> Option in grub to set the boot sequence into verbose mode.
> 
> see
> http://lserinol.blogspot.com/2009/02/booting-opensolaris-in-verbose-mode.html
> for a nice
> <http://lserinol.blogspot.com/2009/02/booting-opensolaris-in-verbose-mode.html>
> blog discussing how to set the verbose mode.

May thanks.  I appended "-m verbose -v" to the kernel line as suggested.
Here's the result:

[...]
Hostname: carryout
[ system/metainit:default starting (SVM initialization) ]





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