[OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Developer] Unable to boot OpenIndiana on my dell studio 1450

[McBofh]

On 21/03/11 12:23 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> FWIW
>
> I have a couple of older house brand machines which boot&  run
> everything up to S10 U7 just fine.  However, neither S10 U8 nor OI
> will boot.  I encountered similar problems w/ recent versions of
> Linux.  In the Linux case, I was able to figure out boot options
> (IIRC noacpi) that allowed Linux to boot.  I've not pressed the issue
> w/ Solaris because I really only use the older machines for testing
> and I've got several newer systems.
>
> I'd *really* like to see OI provide FreeBSD style console boot
> messages so one has some clue as to what is going on when things
> fail.  It took a ridiculous number of attempts booting Linux before I
> was able to read the message that flashed by on the console and fix
> the problem.
>
> If you'd like the details, email me and I'll look for them.


Did you remove

console=graphics

from the kernel$ line in the grub menu?

Also, you should add

-v

to that line if you want to see the boot time messaging.

McB