Toomas Soome wrote:
On 21. nov 2016, at 13:12, Jean-Pierre André
<jean-pierre.an...@wanadoo.fr <mailto:jean-pierre.an...@wanadoo.fr>>
wrote:
[...]
In the boot options screen, there are 4 different ACPI settings.
Would this achieve the same thing?
Are you not assuming the user gets a screen with options ?
(I only get a "I" on top left of screen).
Ou, you have usb image, trying to boot and never get to loader screen
itself, only have spinner at upper left corner?
Ok, what I thought was an "I" must be a "|" not followed
by / \ etc.
if so, the acpi options wont make any difference there yet, those are
for kernel.
Correct, I have tried with no success.
So the loader is relying on some acpi behavior which did
not matter to grub.
if the first spinner appears, you have the boot loader stage1 running,
and it should start the loader itself. If not, reboot (as its probably
hung or something), when spinner appears, press a key and you should get
the prompt.
Rebooted twice. No reaction to keyboard (this is
a USB keyboard, no serial line on this computer).
Note : this is a computer on which OpenIndiana had
been installed from USB key with an appropriate
grub option.
from it you can verify what devices are visible by entering on boot: status
and to see if it is able to list current boot directory content boot: ?boot
note the prompt there is really limited and you can not use arrow keys.
but thats just for very basic diagnostics, just to verify what your bios
did make available
if the loader itself is never started, your
secondary option is to check with cd, and other than that will require
more debugging and/or more recent build depending on what is the root
cause. Absolutely no messages from the loader does smell pretty bad, it
means something is gone wrong at very early
Adding a file to a CD requires regenerating a bootable CD.
Much more complex than a ufs partition on a USB key.
Moreover if the loader has some acpi expectation, it
will be the same from a CD... and on the installed loader.
Is there a way to activate grub on the key ?
I will probably give up, but I am open to help you
debugging the issue.
Jean-Pierre
rgds,
toomas
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