[OpenIndiana-discuss] NUC boot

[Toomas Soome]

> On 5. Nov 2023, at 13:41, James <list at xdrv.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 31/10/2023 09:38, Toomas Soome wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
>> Could you try this image: http://84.50.115.54/OI-hipster-gui-20231027.usb
> 
> It gets past the previous hurdle.  Thank you for whatever tweak this involved.

The problem is/was that the search for media was done before rebuilding device tree - so the disk device nodes were missing from /dev tree. So I did add one echo and devfsadm:)

> 
> Now the "however".  It fails to open a graphical login screen.   Does this mean it is without graphics at all?  Would a text install and then "pkg install mate_install" make any difference?


Graphics is probably hard one - sure you can go without graphics. But if there is no driver for specific card and if framebuffer/VBE driver will not work, there will be no graphics. I have no information about anyone working on drivers.

rgds,
toomas

> 
> This is not my machine and if this never works it is not a tragedy but solving this now could help others in future.
> 
> My apologies for using screen pictures.  "tip hardwire" is my preference.
> 
> 
> James.
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