Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

[Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss]

> On 13. Aug 2021, at 11:13, Carl Brewer <c...@bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:
> 
> The furthest I got was to use the minimal install 20210430 USB image, it 
> booted, albeit slowly.
> 
> I ran the boot in verbose mode, it got as far as prompting for the type of 
> keyboard, which I confirmed as US English (47).
> 
> It then sat there, I left it for 30 minutes, no change.  The screen responds 
> to keyboard input, by echoing the keystrokes, but ^C and ^Z do nothing more 
> than echo to the screen.
> 
> Since it's on a standalone machine, I can't easily show the screen, I did 
> take a photo of it though, but not good list manners to post it. It found the 
> HDD (WD black 1TB) and didn't seem upset about it, but there was no more 
> verbosity to see what it was hung up on.  I don't expect 30 minutes was 
> insufficient time for it to do whatever it was trying to do.  Text mode, so I 
> don't think the Nvidia card would have made much difference?
> 
> I'm not going to give up on it, but I need some guidance as to what to try 
> next. OI and OpenSolaris have been my go to for rock solid platforms for the 
> best part of 20 years now. I don't want to give up and resort to some flaky 
> linux distro just to get ZFS and Virtualbox running!
> 
> "help"
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Carl
> 

This does sound like problems reading out the usb stick, can you try different 
stick and slot, especiall if the system has usb 2 and usb 3.

rgds,
toomas
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