[OpenIndiana-discuss] Reboot failed after Hipster upgrade

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi Garry

Try adding "-v" at the end of the boot line
that adds additional boot startup messages.

Greetings
Till

On 08/10/2017 03:11 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 09:21:13AM +0300, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
>> On 08/07/17 11:48 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> First of all, remove console=graphics and everything related to
>> splash screen from grub menu entry and look what happens on console.
> 
> Okay, I did that by editing the boot lines in GRUB before starting the
> boot.  All I saw on the screen were two lines:
> 
>      SunOS Release 5.11 ... illumos-b7daf79982 64-bit
>      Copyright (c) 1983, ...
> 
> My keyboard was dead.  The Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights were on.
> 
> The disk light came on a few times and stayed on for a long time.  I'd
> say that it was trying to read something from the disk and failing.
> Now the disk light is permanently off.  There's nothing new on the
> screen, just those two lines I mentioned above.  There were no error
> messages.
> 
>