First, huge applauds to the OpenIndiana team for the high quality work they do. 🩷 Second, apologies, as I have plethora of n00b questions ahead.
*Problem*: System restarts in few seconds; doesn't show BSD boot loader menu! I have tried 3 image versions from 2025-06 (ref, https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/hipster/isos/hipster/20250606 ) * gui * text * minimal I am curious what's happening during the boot on this Asus Laptop. I dd them into USB, sudo dd bs=4M if=./OI-hipster-gui-20250606.usb of=/dev/sda status=progress && sync I restart to enter BIOS. I disable secure boot for OpenIndiana Live Image from USB. However, All of them demonstrate the same behavior. * I enter Boot Menu Options from BIOS pressing F8. * I select the USB drive with OpenIndiana Image * It doesn't show anything on screen, 4-5 seconds later system reboots. * I re-enter to BIOS Boot Menu to see the USB drive is gone. And, it never comes back until I dd the image into usb drive again! (screenshot attached) 1. What might be the reason it's not even booting into text mode? The Text Mode doesn't require GPU driver. Right? . BIOS * doesn't have option to disable HyperThreading * doesn't have option to disable Virtualization etc. either. Even though OpenIndiana hardware compatibility list doesn't cover this Notebook / Laptop I am interested how to debug such issues. For example, on Linux during image boot we can press Esc so it shows what it's doing and any error with details it's encouterning. *Hardware Spec* * Laptop Model: Asus P16 H7606WV * CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M * iGPU: [AMD/ATI] Strix [Radeon 880M / 890M] (rev c1) * dGPU: GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q * System Memory: 32GB * Display(s): Notebook's Built in Display only (no external display) * OpenIndiana Image Version: *-20250606.usb These images do boot fine on an older laptop with Intel CPU so that ensures the image is not corrupt on the USB drive (I confirmed sha256 checksum before writing images as well)! I was wondering if Asus had a way to show boot logs in case of errors. So I posted on sub /r/asus <https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/1lu6wby> as well. I haven't found a solution yet. 2. I have grub2 installed on my system (from fedora 42). Is there a way I can load the live boot image from USB drive using manual commands from GRUB? 3. Since I have Nvidia as discrete GPU, wondering if there is a way I could add the latest nvidia driver for that. Regarding the screenshots, * I plan to open an issue on https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl regarding the device touching the USB live image as the boot fails (after first boot attempt it never appears again on Boot Menu), live image on USB drive becomes corrupt / unbootable as soon as the system restarts (found by trying to boot an old machine with that). * Fedora is an installation on Internal HDD, not from external USB ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Te6ca52e0e174d9c5-M77398b01ea1dd2d757960dd9 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
