[OpenIndiana-discuss] Reboot failed after Hipster upgrade

[Jean-Pierre André]

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

Same for me... see discussion about it :
https://openindiana.org/pipermail/oi-dev/2017-June/005463.html

> 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?

I just gave up, and went back to Hipster 2016-04 with
NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-304.125.run

Jean-Pierre

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