Hello Keith Sorry if my post was a little brief. I did edit GRUB before using the serial console just to test that the boot CD was in fact booting properly. Which it did via serial. It's just that on the two or three Intel boards that I have available, unless I have an add on video adapter, I can't get any further than John Meyer's predicament. I can reproduce this behaviour if you are interested in the details. I have a working system now and am very happy with my SmartOS setup.
Kev On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 09:25:08PM +0000, Keith Wesolowski via smartos-discuss wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 10:04:51AM +0000, Kevin Ratcliffe via smartos-discuss > wrote: > > > I'd been playing with SmartOS on a couple of intel desktop boards and I had > > a similar issue where I'd get the SunOS message and nothing else. After a > > bit of head scratching I decided to hook up a serial console and voila, > > everything was booted and running and ready to install. The real fix for me > > was to install a second video adapter. Perhaps SmartOS doesn't like Intels > > on board devices. Strange really because the onboard device works fine in > > OmniOS and Openindiana. > > For what it's worth, we never use VGA ourselves and certainly haven't > modified any of the code that would be responsible for driving the VGA > device. Whatever we have comes straight from illumos, the same place > those other operating systems get theirs. > > If you're getting output by default on the serial console, maybe you're > using SDC instead of SmartOS? By default, SDC uses ttyb for all console > I/O starting with the banner (you can modify this by setting an option > at the boot loader). If you saw this behaviour with SmartOS, I can only > assume it's the product of some alteration to the standard USB image. > It would be worthwhile to inspect the GRUB boot line for the kernel to > see what console options were being passed. > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25291397-002539d9 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
