On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 08:22 Gary Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 08:19:16AM +0200, Toomas Soome via > openindiana-discuss wrote: > > > > > On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:57, Gary Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > The loader works in UEFI mode, but OI does not. Usually you are > > > offered a choice at boot time. Chose BIOS mode. > > > > What you mean by “OI does not”? > > In my experience with the OI live USB image, it would run in either > mode. Even the installer worked correctly. However, when I tried to > boot the disk where I just installed, it failed in UEFI mode. It > worked in BIOS mode. > Exact same experience here. > > The problem was likely with the VESA video driver, which is run as a > last resort by Xorg. The VESA driver makes BIOS calls that fail when > there is no BIOS. I'm using the Radeon HD 7450 video card that only > works with the VESA driver. Hence OI boot only works in BIOS mode. > /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells the tale. > > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, > Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > 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
