[OpenIndiana-discuss] NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE GPU not supported on hipster

[Jean-Pierre André]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the useful suggestions.

However I am not to retry now, as the version suggested by Ken
is acceptable.

Jean-Pierre

Мартин Бохниг via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> still not a very detailed description.
> In the case you described I recommend a user to first install OI to disc in text mode or vesa mode and to then nail down what actually happens.
>
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/adm/messages would be the first places to look.
>
> Non-HDD case (and generally) : As for how to get hold of these in case of a "non-booting" (sigh, what? why? until which pint?) CD/DVD or USB you already named the most fitting possibilibiets:
>
>
>> (using a
>> live-CD, copying some file to a fat-formatted USB key or
>> through the network, etc.)
>
> As I suggest every time here on this very list: Boot to single user, start sshd manually, check which ip address gets assigned.
>
> Then ^d and continue the boot.
> After impact (or also before) you can ssh into jack:jack at your-ip and watch what happened.
>
> Good luck and I'm back not before 2am next month ;)
>
>
>
> best regards,
> %martin bochnig
>
>
>
>
>>> Why? Where? When? How? Backtrace?
>>
>> This is the kind of things I have no knowledge as to how to
>> get more information about. I am not a system developer.
>> After I installed the driver, I could not boot any more, and
>> I had to restore the system from the backup. I do not remember
>> whether I could boot in single user mode.
>>
>> I might retry, but you have to tell me how to extract the
>> data you want from a computer which does not boot (using a
>> live-CD, copying some file to a fat-formatted USB key or
>> through the network, etc.)
>>
>>
>>
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