[OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

[Michal Nowak]

On 07/18/18 04:34 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> Well, booting from DVD is better when USB3 support is not broken. Should
>> this be the problem, one can boot from USB2 drive (preferably in USB2
>> port, if available). Unless we have at least some error message, we can
>> only guess, be it the NVMe disk or what not. Ask him to enable verbose
>> logging in the bootloader, if he can actually see something in the VGA
>> console.
> 
> First it is a NVMe disk but there is a driver for this:
> 
> https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/3c9168fa8e9c30d55b3aa2fde74bd7da46df53f5
> 
> Although this is no news the driver is not installed on my system (I did a fresh
> install in 2016). So I wonder if the driver is actually part of the installation
> DVD/USB.
> 

I added the driver to media 8 months ago 
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/commit/0c02049b8d1ac71f3f96363f767ba92d47d6ccd3, 
so OI 2018.04 has it.

> The following is what he gets when he boots after disabling the nvidia card and UEFI:
> 
> https://pasteboard.co/Hv2lxJs.jpg

I've seen this on Kaby Lake system but don't remember how/if I 
workarounded it. Last chance: disable ACPI in the bootloader.

M.

> Regards,
> 
> Apostolos
> 
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> Apostolos Syropoulos
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