On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 15:26 +0100, Ewald Ertl wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:18 PM, John Connett <j...@skylon.demon.co.uk>wrote: > > > Completed an apparently successful update from OI_147 using: > > > > pfexec pkg image-update -v > > > > However, when attempting to start OI_148 the system hangs at the > > "Hostname: xxx" stage with no activity on the disk light. Any > > suggestions on how to investigate or fix this? > > > I haven't attempted this in OpenIndian, but I think it should still work to > use the -v > Option in grub to set the boot sequence into verbose mode. > > see > http://lserinol.blogspot.com/2009/02/booting-opensolaris-in-verbose-mode.html > for a nice > <http://lserinol.blogspot.com/2009/02/booting-opensolaris-in-verbose-mode.html> > blog discussing how to set the verbose mode.
May thanks. I appended "-m verbose -v" to the kernel line as suggested. Here's the result: [...] Hostname: carryout [ system/metainit:default starting (SVM initialization) ] _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss