On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM Atiq Rahman <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Even though subject is: OmniOS CE (bloody-20250709) usb image hangs, > please note that stable release r151054 is also broken, repros same result* > > Hi Dan, > Thanks for all the help. > > > I assume you did see “Booting..” text, then it cleared the screen and > thats it. > Yep, I did see that (a few lines including booting) before it showed the > cursor only screen. (photo: p1) > That looks exactly like what happens when the system decides that the console ought to go somewhere else, such as a serial port. (I've had reports of this happening with OmniOS on some cloud providers.) So, what does loader think OsConsole is set to? > > ok framebuffer get > output on photo (p2) > > ok show efi-version > 2.90 > > > BIOS mode (CSM) if the system does support it. > It doesn't support CSM. > > > ok set boot_resolution=“800x600” > > ok set prom_debug=true > > ok set kbm_debug=true > > ok boot -kv > same result (big cursor on top left). Native screen resolution is 4K > (3840x2400). I also tried other 16:10 resolutions, for example, 1920x1200 > neither of which led to a successful installer screen. > > > see if there is more visible output after boot command. > Nope > > Unfortunately, I am getting busier. I will probably stop experimenting with > OmniOS for now and stick to the OI text installer. I thought, for me, > OmniOS, > OI don't make any difference; I have no GUI anyways! So I thought would try > OmniOS but this installer image is a blocker. I might give it a shot on > the next > OmniOS release. > > > Sincerely, > > Atiq > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM Toomas Soome via illumos-developer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 27. Aug 2025, at 04:40, Atiq Rahman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> (changing subject because this time I only tried bloody image; >> motivation: more up to date image in case it fixes things) >> >> Hi, >> Thanks for the replies on this boot image issue. >> >> So I booted omnios-bloody-20250709. Answers below, >> >> > 1. do you get boot loader operational - that is, get menu on screen, >> press esc to get to ok prompt, are commands like ls, lsdev working? >> yep (photo 1 attached) >> >> >> btw: lsdev -v will show pool details as well (including bootfs dataset >> name). >> >> > 2. from loader ok prompt, enter: start — this will load kernel and >> modules, use lsmod -s to check list of loaded modules and their checksums. >> yep, this is working as well (photo 2 attached) >> >> >> >> btw: checksums are sha1 (and boot_archive hash does match with one from >> boot_archive.hash). >> >> >> > 3. enter: boot -kv -B prom_debug=true,kbm_debug=true — this should >> spam a console a lot, but if we get the hung system, we will have some idea >> where this is happening. (photo 3 attached) >> >> >> ok, this is not good. I assume you did see “Booting..” text, then it >> cleared the screen and thats it. >> >> No spamming on the screen. Like before it immediately brings up that >> blank screen with a big cursor on top of the left of the screen. >> >> Also, fonts (bootloader menu) are zoomed out looking bigger on the screen >> on the initial screen. The OI Hipster bootloader menu appears more natural >> than this. (photo 4) >> >> >> omnios devs did decide to use fixed size screens (not defaulting on what >> hardware has): >> >> /boot/defaults/loader.conf: >> >> >> loader_resolution="800x600" # The resolution of the loader menu screen >> >> loader_font="10x18" # The font used for the loader menu screen >> >> boot_resolution="1024x768" # The resolution set before booting the >> system >> >> boot_font="10x18" # The font selected before booting the >> system >> >> >> To try to diagnose it a bit more, lets try to tell it to not change the >> resolution: >> ... >> As you are running UEFI mode, try booting with BIOS mode (CSM) if the >> system does support it. >> >> The problem with such issue is about to get the information out of the >> system. You have no serial ports, so the only option right now is to get >> the output on screen. >> >> rgds, >> toomas >> > *illumos <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest>* / omnios-discuss / see > discussions <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/omnios-discuss> + > participants <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/omnios-discuss/members> > + delivery options > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/omnios-discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/omnios-discuss/T75debb6a2654ab98-Mab7d95234451b5d060b762be> > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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