[OpenIndiana-discuss] Reboot failed after Hipster upgrade

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 08/07/17 11:48 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
> One of my systems has an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with an AMD
> Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+.  It has an NVIDIA GPU
> GeForce 6200 LE video card, for which I installed the
> NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.132.run product.  It's running a Hipster
> version from 2016-09-30.
> 
> When I attempted to upgrade to a Hipster version from 2017-08-07, the
> install proceeded normally, but the reboot never completed.  The
> console (USB) keyboard went dead.  The progress bar on the monitor ran
> forever.  There was nothing on the monitor but that progress bar.  I
> couldn't login remotely, either.  I had to hold down the power button
> to stop it.
> 
> After that, I was able to select the previous BE from the GRUB menu.
> That worked normally.  I could mount the upgraded BE to examine it,
> but none of the log files were new enough to have come from the
> reboot.
> 
> What can I do to enable the upgrade and reboot to succeed?
> 
> 

Hi.
First of all, remove console=graphics and everything related to splash 
screen from grub menu entry and look what happens on console.
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department