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

[Will Brokenbourgh]

On 10/2/18 11:19 AM, Michal Nowak wrote:
> 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

Hi again Michal and Till,

I finally figured out how to continue from the debugger prompt, but it 
still hangs at a certain point after that.  I was unable to make the 
debugger interactive at the hang, so I just took a picture of the screen 
and transcribed the text.

I will go ahead and file a problem report and hopefully there will be 
enough information for a fix.

Thank you Michal and Till!


Will Brokenbourgh

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