[OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

[Judah Richardson]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 08:22 Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 08:19:16AM +0200, Toomas Soome via
> openindiana-discuss wrote:
> >
> > > On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:57, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > >
> > > The loader works in UEFI mode, but OI does not.  Usually you are
> > > offered a choice at boot time.  Chose BIOS mode.
> >
> > What you mean by “OI does not”?
>
> In my experience with the OI live USB image, it would run in either
> mode.  Even the installer worked correctly.  However, when I tried to
> boot the disk where I just installed, it failed in UEFI mode.  It
> worked in BIOS mode.
>
Exact same experience here.

>
> The problem was likely with the VESA video driver, which is run as a
> last resort by Xorg.  The VESA driver makes BIOS calls that fail when
> there is no BIOS.  I'm using the Radeon HD 7450 video card that only
> works with the VESA driver.  Hence OI boot only works in BIOS mode.
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells the tale.
>
>
> --
> -Gary Mills-            -refurb-                -Winnipeg, Manitoba,
> Canada-
>
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