Hi Sounds like a driver problem with the specific port you are using to boot that computer. You seem to be able to land in the ramdisk? Do you have "df" utility? If you issue "df -h" you should see that / is mounted from a device called "ramdisk:a". If not you landed in the loader shell. Which means loader would not support the Boot device you are trying to use. Have you tried on another USB Port?
Is UEFI enabled? can you disable it? Can you boot with VESA graphics mode? Can you boot with ACPI off? The last two are selectable from the Boot menu when you press 5 for more options. If any of that does not help, please reboot with verbose mode and share the error that shows on screen. Please be aware, that our ISO images are not Hybrid like linux ones. You must use the .usb images if you want to boot via usb. And you must write them to the stick directly not any partition. Greetings Till On 03.11.19 12:45, Chris Game wrote: > Hello everyone, > Trying to boot using downloads of the current OI install/live CD > files, both the 2019.04 text install and the live DVD. Trying to > boot from either the USB version or the DVD (iso) files. The boot > process gets as far as the OI menu, spits out the SunOS line then > insists on dropping into the Maintenance Mode instead of booting the > system. Now I'm stuck - although I have a root account there I > have few options, worst of all there is no reboot command and even > the /sbin/init command although it runs seem to have no effect, so > shutdown is through the power button on the physical machine. > > Now, how to get this Live DVD to Boot? Linux DVDs do boot, as does > Windows, it only seems a prob with OI files. > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
