[OmniOS-discuss] Can't bring up r151020

[Dan McDonald]

> On Nov 4, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't been able to upgrade since the July patches.  I believe it has something to do with
> 
> • missing MCFG table should lead to I/O PCIe config access (illumos 6859)
> 
> Which seems to be tripping up on my machine.  The symptom is that the console displays (this is a capture before r151020 which behaves the same):
> 
> SunOS Release 5.11 Version omnios-r151818-95eaa7e 64-bit
> Copyright (c) 1983, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = f48, size = 2
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = 100, size = 4
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = f48, size = 2
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = 100, size = 4
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = f48, size = 2
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = 100, size = 4
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = f48, size = 2
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = 100, size = 4
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = 100, size = 4
> WARNING: illegal PCI request: offset = 100, size = 4
> 
> and then hangs.  The system logs are empty so it happens early in the boot process.  If anyone has a suggestion on how to get past this, I'm all ears.

IIRC, you have a potentially problematic bge on this guy.  Can you boot without bge temporarily?  I know it'll kill networking on your box, but can you edit the "unix" grub line and add:

	-B disable-bge

after "/platform/..../unix ".

IF you can get there, we may be able to proceed.

Dan