I have a machine with an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running a Hipster
version that I installed from the 20160421 ISO. It's using a new
video card with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 GPU, supported by the nvidia
driver. Today, I tried to upgrade to the current Hipster in a new BE.
When I did the default boot of the new BE in GRUB, I got only these
two lines on the screen:
SunOS Release ...
Copyright (c) ...
The USB keyboard and mouse went dead after the boot. The disk light
cycled slowly. I had to hold down the power button to stop it.
When I tried a verbose boot (-v) from the GRUB menu, I got more
messages on the screen. Some scrolled off, but I saw these:
...
Reading Intel IOMMU boot options
...
PCI Express-device: isa0@a, isa0@
...
/pci@0,0/pci1043,81c0@e :
SATA disk device at port 0
model ST3160815AS
...
Supported queue depty 32, limited to 1
capacity = 312581808 sectors
There was a very long pause at this point with the disk LED out.
Again, the keyboard and mouse went dead early in the boot.
To recover, I booted the original BE through GRUB, and activated that
BE.
This behavior rules out the MBR/loader bug because only GRUB was used.
I'm guessing that the boot of the new BE disabled the USB devices and
that the OS then went into a loop enumerating devices.
The video card was not involved because the boot did not proceed to
the point where the resolution changed.
What would have caused this behavior? What can I do now to enable the
upgrade to work, or even to debug the problem further?
--
-Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-
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