[OpenIndiana-discuss] boot failure

[Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss]

Hello,


A friend of mine got a Lenovo Y520 legion laptop which is presented in the link below

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Legion-Y520-15IKBN-7700HQ-FHD-GTX-1050-Ti-Laptop-Review.223480.0.html

He tried to install the latest OI. He used a USB to boot the system. The boot loader appears, he
presses enter and then the system hangs. Any idea what might be the problem and how can he solve
it if he can solve it? (NB. He far away from my location so I cannot have a look at the machine...)

Kind regards,

Apostolos


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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece

[Michal Nowak]

Did he booted the latest GUI image with UEFI enabled on the laptop? UEFI
does not work correctly at the moment. I suggest he either boots off
Legacy BIOS, or toggles "Live SSH" in the bootloader and waits for X to
appear.

Michal

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Hello,
A friend of mine got a Lenovo Y520 legion laptop which is presented in the link below
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Legion-Y520-15IKBN-7700HQ-FHD-GTX-1050-Ti-Laptop-Review.223480.0.html
He tried to install the latest OI. He used a USB to boot the system. The boot loader appears, he
presses enter and then the system hangs. Any idea what might be the problem and how can he solve
it if he can solve it? (NB. He far away from my location so I cannot have a look at the machine...)
Kind regards,
Apostolos
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Xanthi, Greece
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Post by Michal Nowak
Did he booted the latest GUI image with UEFI enabled on the laptop? UEFI
does not work correctly at the moment. I suggest he either boots off
Legacy BIOS, or toggles "Live SSH" in the bootloader and waits for X to appear.

Hello Michal!

Thanks for your response. My friend told me that he tried to boot using
legacy BIOS and he also tried to use the "Live SSH" option but unfortunately
nothing works. I was wondering if trying to boot from a DVD (an external one since
the machine does not have a DVD) would be a better option.

A.S.

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece

[Michal Nowak]

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss

Post by Michal Nowak
Did he booted the latest GUI image with UEFI enabled on the laptop? UEFI
does not work correctly at the moment. I suggest he either boots off
Legacy BIOS, or toggles "Live SSH" in the bootloader and waits for X to appear.

Hello Michal!
Thanks for your response. My friend told me that he tried to boot using
legacy BIOS and he also tried to use the "Live SSH" option but unfortunately
nothing works. I was wondering if trying to boot from a DVD (an external one since
the machine does not have a DVD) would be a better option.
A.S.

Well, booting from DVD is better when USB3 support is not broken. Should
this be the problem, one can boot from USB2 drive (preferably in USB2
port, if available). Unless we have at least some error message, we can
only guess, be it the NVMe disk or what not. Ask him to enable verbose
logging in the bootloader, if he can actually see something in the VGA
console.

M.

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Post by Michal Nowak
Well, booting from DVD is better when USB3 support is not broken. Should
this be the problem, one can boot from USB2 drive (preferably in USB2
port, if available). Unless we have at least some error message, we can
only guess, be it the NVMe disk or what not. Ask him to enable verbose
logging in the bootloader, if he can actually see something in the VGA
console.

First it is a NVMe disk but there is a driver for this:

https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/3c9168fa8e9c30d55b3aa2fde74bd7da46df53f5

Although this is no news the driver is not installed on my system (I did a fresh
install in 2016). So I wonder if the driver is actually part of the installation
DVD/USB.

The following is what he gets when he boots after disabling the nvidia card and UEFI:

Loading Image...
Regards,

Apostolos

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece

[Michal Nowak]

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss

Post by Michal Nowak
Well, booting from DVD is better when USB3 support is not broken. Should
this be the problem, one can boot from USB2 drive (preferably in USB2
port, if available). Unless we have at least some error message, we can
only guess, be it the NVMe disk or what not. Ask him to enable verbose
logging in the bootloader, if he can actually see something in the VGA
console.

https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/3c9168fa8e9c30d55b3aa2fde74bd7da46df53f5
Although this is no news the driver is not installed on my system (I did a fresh
install in 2016). So I wonder if the driver is actually part of the installation
DVD/USB.

I added the driver to media 8 months ago
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/commit/0c02049b8d1ac71f3f96363f767ba92d47d6ccd3,
so OI 2018.04 has it.

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
https://pasteboard.co/Hv2lxJs.jpg

I've seen this on Kaby Lake system but don't remember how/if I
workarounded it. Last chance: disable ACPI in the bootloader.

M.

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss
Regards,
Apostolos
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Post by Michal Nowak
I've seen this on Kaby Lake system but don't remember how/if I
workarounded it. Last chance: disable ACPI in the bootloader.

OK this last "trick" allowed him to finally boot the system.
Now the question is: Once the system is installed is it necessary to
disable ACPI everytime he boots the system? If the answer is yes,
is there any way to configure the boot loader to automatically disable
ACPI?

Kind regards,

Apostolos


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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece

[Till Wegmüller]

Hi

A simple

echo "acpi-user-options=2" > /boot/conf.d/acpi

does the trick


Greetings
Till

Post by Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss

Post by Michal Nowak
I've seen this on Kaby Lake system but don't remember how/if I
workarounded it. Last chance: disable ACPI in the bootloader.

OK this last "trick" allowed him to finally boot the system.
Now the question is: Once the system is installed is it necessary to
disable ACPI everytime he boots the system? If the answer is yes,
is there any way to configure the boot loader to automatically disable
ACPI?
Kind regards,
Apostolos
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Xanthi, Greece
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Post by Till Wegmüller
A simple
echo "acpi-user-options=2" > /boot/conf.d/acpi
does the trick

Thank you so much!

A.S.

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Apostolos Syropoulos
Xanthi, Greece