[OpenIndiana-discuss] Flashing green background on 151a Desktop USB

[William Dowling]

I guess you could do the GUI install on Virtualbox and record that?
Again not sure why it wouldn't work on my hardware but I've been
running OI on VBox on my MacBook Pro and it's running without issues.

Will

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Michelle Knight <michelle at msknight.com> wrote:
> Hi Will,
>
> Thanks for that.  Yes, I've got the text installer to work OK, but I'm
> putting together a small video series on installing OI and ZFS so I'd
> like to show people the OI desktop working if possible.
>
> Michelle.
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 16:50:12 +0100
> William Dowling <wmdowling at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Michelle,
>>
>> I had a similar issue and used the text installer to install
>> OpenIndiana. It worked installing it on Virtualbox but not on bare
>> hardware (Samsung NC10).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Will
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Michelle Knight
>> <michelle at msknight.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Folks,
>> >
>> > I tidied up my e-mail history a short while ago so this might have
>> > been asked before.
>> >
>> > I have 151a8 desktop USB on a stick and I've tried loading it on a
>> > Lenovo Thinkpad X61 and also an HP N54L but when it comes up, even
>> > with teh VESA drivers, the background is green and flashes between
>> > green and black.
>> >
>> > At one point I think I can hear a voice say, "Welcome to
>> > openindiana" or something like that, but I might be dreaming.
>> >
>> > Anyone have any ideas please?
>> >
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