> andrew wrote: > > I recently discovered while testing build 111a in a > VM that it is now possible to press ESC when the > happyface (graphical) bootsplash is on the screen to > fall back to the text mode console. Unfortunately > when I try this on my laptop it causes the machine to > reboot. The laptop is a Toshiba Tecra A9 with onboard > Intel graphics (pci8086,2a02). > > > > Just flagging this up in case it isn't already a > known problem. > > We've observed this, as well as at least one hang. > Both seem to rely on > hitting the key at just the right time.
That's what I'm seeing as well. After I posted my first message I tried the same thing on another machine - desktop with nVidia graphics - and it does the same thing if I press ESC at a certain point early in boot. > To work > around this you can try > to avoid hitting they key during the windows that > cause trouble (once > you've identified them). > > I've yet to see a system that happens to have a > serial port on which > this can be reproduced, so there's no particularly > good way to debug > this as it seems to happen before dumps are > available. I have a serial port and a second machine, but unfortunately no serial cable. > > BTW, you mention a VM, and then you state that your > laptop rebooted, > his didn't blow away the hardware from inside a VM, > did it? No - tested in a VM first, then on bare metal. Is there a bug number I can track this on? Thanks Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
