Kostas:
If I ran into this, I will do the following:
In the grub menu, disable happy boot as follow:
The workaround is to remove the the following line:
splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm - need to use d
foreground d25f00 - need to use d
background 115d93" lines - need to use d
and ",console=graphics" in kernel$ line from the GRUB menu - need to use e
If it still hangs, then you need to boot kmdb and see which module cause
the hang:
On x86, in the GRUB item, type "e" (for edit) and
then another "e" and then add "-k -d " to the end of the kernel line
or before the -B options. Finally, press return to boot this entry.
This will cause the kernel debugger to load
Loading kmdb...
Welcome to kmdb
kmdb: unable to determine terminal type: assuming `vt100'
Loaded modules: [ unix krtld genunix ]
[0]>
At the prompt, enter "moddebug/W 0x80000000", <return> and then ":c",
<return> which will then print out each module as it's being loaded.
Instead of spending time on osol_122 which is out of date, I will also
pkg image-update to the latest available osol build and see whether the
issue still exist. I had been using osol_125 on a couple of x86 laptops
and they work fine.
Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
> Well, I chose snv122 from the GRUB menu and the machine started booting,
> but it is stuck in the blue screen with the orange slider, and it
> doesn't matter how many times I hit ESC.
> It's frozen. Ideas welcome.
>
> Juanita Heieck wrote:
>> This happened to me when I did image-update recently.
>> I hit esc and I had to enable /network/physical:nwam and
>> reboot. Then I was able to get to the login prompt.
>> Your issue might be different though.
>>
>> Nita
>>
>> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>>> Yes - the bar will continue until either an X server starts or the user
>>> hits a key to drop to the text console. If the text console has an
>>> error
>>> message telling you what's wrong, it will sit there hidden behind the
>>> slider
>>> bar until you hit a key to see it.
>>>
>>> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>>> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
>>>
>>>
>>> Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>>>
>>>> What I mean is that the machine sits there with the orange slider going
>>>> back and forth for more than 15 minutes. That is not normal.
>>>>
>>>> Are you saying to hist ESC, even so?
>>>>
>>>> Kostas
>>>>
>>>> mary ding wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Kostas:
>>>>>
>>>>> It is not hang, osol using happy face boot. You can hit Esc to disable
>>>>> happy face boot and you should see normal boot messages.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I finished the upgrade, but when the machine tries to boot snv122, it
>>>>>> hangs on the splash screen (where the slider moves across the blue
>>>>>> screen).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is strange, as I have an identical machine at home running
>>>>>> snv122. The only difference is that the machine that's hanging has
>>>>>> 4GB of memory and a 500GB disk, whereas the home machine that works
>>>>>> fine has 2GB memory and 320GB disk.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kostas
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mary ding wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kostas:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> According to the notes that I have, you can do this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> beadm create <be-name>
>>>>>>> beadm mount <be-name> /mnt
>>>>>>> pkg -R /mnt install entire at 0.5.11-0.122
>>>>>>> bootadm update-archive -R /mnt
>>>>>>> beadm umount <be-name>
>>>>>>> beadm activate <be-name>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but it only upgrades the bits from your opensolaris.org
>>>>>>> publisher, and
>>>>>>> nothing from /extra, /contrib, etc. You'll have to do those by
>>>>>>> hand.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kostas Oikonomou wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just received a new HP machine and replaced its Windows Vista
>>>>>>>> with snv 118 from a DVD I had.
>>>>>>>> Now I'd like to upgrade to a later release, but I know that snv 124
>>>>>>>> has some problems that to me are critical.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So I would like to install snv 122. But how do I do this? Can it
>>>>>>>> be done with package manager?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Kostas
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