[OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

[Jacob Ritorto]

Got this scrambled graphics screen. Going to try text install. 

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> On Apr 22, 2021, at 11:54 AM, Judah Richardson <judahrichardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:20 AM Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> I don't reinstall from an image, but run pkg update almost daily, and have
>> rarely (maybe once, a long time ago) run into anything that didn't boot
>> properly again (such that I had to boot an older BE and get rid of the
>> failed one).
> 
> This has been my experience running OI Hipster on a Dell OptiPlex 390 MT
> <https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/blob/master/Dell%20OptiPlex%20390%20MT.md>
> (specs and config at link) with legacy boot. Aside from the initial
> installation challenges and some instability running with 8 GB (upgrading
> to 16 GB fixed that) RAM, I haven't experienced any bugs that prevent OI
> from running or booting smoothly. I update pkg and pkgin at least once a
> month (usually coinciding with Patch Tuesday), which is also the only time
> I ever have to reboot (solely to move to the new BE).
> 
> In addition to OI, I run Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Windows 10 (2 release
> channels), and Raspberry Pi OS all on bare metal. Although the lack of
> package support/availability limits its usefulness relative to the other
> OSes for my workflow, OI has been the most stable and reliable of the
> bunch. In fact, I frequently use OI's out of the box integrated DE as a
> model for FreeBSD to follow.
> 
> I track issues with my OS installations on GitHub
> <https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/issues>, and currently of the 19 open, only
> 1 is an OI issue <https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/issues/93>. That issue
> is one I theoretically have the solution to, but haven't had time to
> implement (plus thanks to the magic of DHCP IP address lease renewal, it's
> easy to work around.)
> 
> That's as VirtualBox guests (usually current VirtualBox, except that right
>> now, 6.1.20 aborted VMs on startup, so I reverted to 6.1.18 and its
>> extension pack, which is fine), on a macOS host (currently Mojave).
>> 
>> root at openindiana:~# uname -a;cat /etc/release
>> SunOS openindiana 5.11 illumos-64b8fdd9a2 i86pc i386 i86pc
>>             OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10 (powered by illumos)
>>        OpenIndiana Project, part of The Illumos Foundation (C) 2010-2020
>>                        Use is subject to license terms.
>>                           Assembled 31 October 2020
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Apr 22, 2021, at 11:05, John D Groenveld <groenveld at acm.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In message <CMM.0.95.0.1619061210.beebe at gamma.math.utah.edu>, "Nelson
>> H. F. Bee
>>> be" writes:
>>>> Are openindiana developers on this list willing to post a list of VMs
>>>> on which candidate ISO images have been tested before end users try to
>>>> install them on physical machines?
>>> 
>>> Using bhyve(5). I was able to install via the
>>> OI-hipster-text-20210405.iso.
>>> 
>>> Using VirtualBox with the VBox configure in UEFI mode, I was able to
>>> install via that ISO image.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately using the USB image, OI-hipster-text-20210405.usb,
>>> the VM boots into maintenance under both bhyve and VirtualBox.
>>> John
>>> groenveld at acm.org
>>> 
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