> On 5. Sep 2025, at 12:10, Atiq Rahman <ati...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Thank you. > > But, this feels like a mystery to me. How did the OI text installer load just > fine without this patch but the OmniOS image couldn't! >
cold poweron versus warm reboot? it is kind of surprise from firmware, would not hurt to check for firmware update. rgds, toomas > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM Joshua M. Clulow via oi-dev > <oi-dev@openindiana.org <mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org>> wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 20:56, Atiq Rahman <ati...@gmail.com >> <mailto:ati...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > > 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) >> > >> > > ok framebuffer get >> > output on photo (p2) >> >> Based on the photograph, it seems like your framebuffer base address >> is 0x7a_1000_0000 which is above the 32-bit boundary. When you enable >> "prom_debug" and "kbm_debug", there is some early boot code which >> can't use a 64-bit address to write to the display. This ultimately >> causes the writes to go off into space, and may collide with other >> memory that upsets the boot process. >> >> This is described in a ticket I'm working on at the moment for another >> system that has this problem: >> >> 17548 early boot framebuffer reach exceeds grasp >> https://www.illumos.org/issues/17548 >> https://code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/4350 >> >> Should hopefully be finished soon! >> >> >> Cheers. >> >> -- >> Joshua M. Clulow > > illumos <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest> / illumos-developer / see > discussions <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer> + participants > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/members> + delivery options > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription>Permalink > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T75debb6a2654ab98-Ma46046dbd2472f34d806491e>
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