[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster live DVD and USB won't boot all the way

[Michal Nowak]

On 10/02/18 07:41 AM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
> 
> After a long time away from OpenIndiana, I have tried to come back,
> however I can only run OI in a virtual machine now.  This is not ideal
> and I want to run OI natively.  I really *really* want to run OI on my
> bare metal, but it just hangs after the copyright and before the SMF
> start stage.
> 
> I tried getting some advice from the OI IRC channel, but the folks who
> were responding didn't understand my issue.  I cannot get to the
> Device Driver Utility to generate a report because OI doesn't boot all
> the way.
> 
> I tried using verbose and debug mode while booting and this is the
> only error shown:
> - - -
> module /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix: text at [0xfffffffffb800000,
> 0xfffffffffb96d29c] data at 0xfffffffffbc00000
> module /kernel/amd64/genunix: text at [0xfffffffffb96d2a0,
> 0xfffffffffbbdce07] data at 0xfffffffffbcae3c0
> Loading kmdb...
> module /kernel/misc/amd64/kmdbmod: text at [0xfffffffffbd1f460,
> 0xfffffffffbdd4197] data at 0xfffffffffbdd41a0
> module /kernel/misc/amd64/ctf: text at [0xfffffffffbbdce20,
> 0xfffffffffbbe6f0f] data at 0xfffffffffbe9d600
> 
> Welcome to kmdb
> Loaded modules: [ unix krtld genunix ]
> [0]>
> - - -
> 
> Here are some of the specifics of my system:
> - - -
> Motherboard:
>    ASUS M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3, BIOS 0502, 11/18/2016
>    Video adapter: Integrated AMD RS780L [Radeon 3000]
>    SATA controller: AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller
>    USB controller: AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
>    USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042A USB 3.0 Host Controller
>    Ethernet controller: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
> Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
> Processor:
>    AMD FX-6300 Six-Core Processor 64-bit
> 
> Thanks in advance for letting me know what steps I should take next
> (besides different hardware -- that is not economically feasible right
> now).
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Will Brokenbourgh
> 
> Sent from my Linux desktop
> 
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Hi Will,

besides what Till suggests wrt ACPI, try booting from DVD, if you booted 
from USB (or vice versa). If you booted from USB 3 port (xHCI) try USB 2 
(EHCI) one, if you used USB 3 flash key, try USB 2 one.

You are trying the latest hipster snapshot, right? You say OpenIndiana 
worked on the system before? Does it really hang so that cursor is not 
blinking?

Have a look at http://illumos.org/hcl/ and see what component may not be 
supported and try to turn them off in BIOS.

Michal