[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot crash

[Matt Connolly]

Hi all, I'm looking for some assistance to investigate a boot crash.

My OI machine locked up last night. It would still respond to pings, but would not accept any network connections nor wake the monitor.

After forcibly powering it off, and rebooting, it is now crashing very early during the boot phase, stuck in an endless reboot cycle. I've tried booting into older BE's, with same result.

I've added the "-m verbose -v" options to the kernel boot line in grub, and I see about 1 seconds worth of text fly past too fast to read, then reset, back to bios startup again.

I suspect the problem may be hardware related, but I am wondering if there's a way to "stop" the system from rebooting at that panic point so I can read the boot text??


Thanks for any help,
Matt