[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] OpenSolaris 200811 nightly image of Oct.31 could not stop slider after installation on xVM virtual machine

[jan damborsky]

Hi Jason,

could you please try without "happy face" (that progress bar)
in order to see, why/where the machine is hanging ?

When in GRUB, press 'e' and using 'd' remove following lines from
GRUB menu:

splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
foreground d25f00
background 115d93

Also remove ",console=graphics" from kernel$ line.

Optionally, you might add "-kvd" to the kernel$ line
in order to enable kmdb and obtain more information -
if it turns out, it is not quite obvious, why machine
hung.

Then press 'b' in order to boot - progress bar shouldn't be there
and you could observe what's going on.

Also, could you please attach "install_log" file ?

Thank you,
Jan



Jason Zhao wrote:
> Forgot to mention, the build is based on snv_100a.
>
> And I installed the virtual machine on X4200 M2 with 2G RAM
> and 34G disk which is a large file.
>
> Thanks
> Jason
> Jason Zhao wrote:
>> Hi, All
>>
>>
>> I pulled over the 1031 nightly image from indiana-build.central.
>> And I tried to install it on xVM virtual machine through HVM mode.
>> The installation process is quite well, but after installation, when
>> the GUI or X try to start, it shows a slider which is never end, and it
>> is to say, the GUI desktop could never start. As the screen picture
>> in attachment. So far, it is about 14 hours after installation, the
>> desktop still could not start.
>>
>> I am not sure what it try to do when GUI or X start, and I guess it is
>> trying to get DHCP address. But in our test environment, the machine
>> could not be dispatched an IP address automatically by DHCP server.
>>
>> On real machine, the slider process after installation is also quite
>> long in our test environment. It is about 15 minutes in all on Lenovo
>> T61 laptop.
>>
>> Any suggestion, please?
>>
>> Great Thanks
>> Jason
>>   
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