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

[Michal Nowak]

On 10/02/18 07:22 PM, Will Brokenbourgh wrote:
> 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*
> 

Hello Will,

Till replied to your email before me, if you did not get his email, you 
can read it here: 
https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2018-October/022386.html.

I suggest you boot with 'verbose' (see the bootloader menus), it may 
show on which part it stuck.

You can always report to the illumos-gate project tracker 
(https://www.illumos.org/projects/illumos-gate) but be sure to find out 
which HW component might be triggering the problem.

Michal