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

[Will Brokenbourgh]

On 10/2/18 8:45 AM, Michal Nowak wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
>
Hi Michal,

Thanks for that information.  I have actually tried disabling ACPI and 
also did the USB 2 port tricks, but still the result is the same.  I did 
not see anything on-list from Till, is this a website or resource on the 
OpenIndiana site?

Obviously some part of my hardware is unsupported.  Is there some place 
I can submit my hardware information and they will add support for it in 
the kernel?

Thank you! :)


*Will Brokenbourgh*

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