After having dain bramaged myself for years with Linux usage. I had gotten spoiled into believing an OS should make it simple to do the following:<\/p>\n
1. Shutdown computer
\n2. Swap around hardware components
\n3. Restart
\n4. Life is good<\/p>\n
However any techie should tell you this is a pipe dream on Windows. Mac users probably have no clue since they never change hardware components and just buy new Macs to solve their problems. Which leaves the lucky OSS *nix variants to try stunts like this.<\/p>\n
Being the stubborn person I am, I attempted this with OpenSolaris by swapping out my motherboard. I wanted to do this in order to take advantage of the E7400 Core 2 Duo that I bought awhile back. Things almost worked however on reboot I was given the dreaded console login screen with a useless keyboard. The following as far as I know don\u00b4t work…<\/p>\n
1. CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE
\n2. CTRL-ALT-Fn
\n3. CTRL-ALT-DEL<\/p>\n
Your best bet is to ssh somehow and try to look for clues. Here is what I did…<\/p>\n
1. Swap motherboard and stare at dark screen References<\/p>\n After having dain bramaged myself for years with Linux usage. I had gotten spoiled into believing an OS should make it simple to do the following: 1. Shutdown computer 2. Swap around hardware components 3. Restart 4. Life is good However any techie should tell you this is a pipe dream on Windows. Mac users […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1216,1215,3771,1099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fixes","category-gripe","category-solaris","category-unix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Find out how to boot into single user mode<\/a> and make sure the kernel isn’t PO-ed or something and find my IP address
\n3. Move away the X11 configuration that I configured (dual-display) and try rebooting
\n4. Reboot and find out it isn’t working
\n5. ssh in and realize it still isn’t working. Move the old dual display X11 config back to \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf
\n6. Try restarting gdm with svcadm restart gdm and watch it fail
\n7. Scritch head some more
\n8. Try starting X from the SSH session and whoah it works
\n9. Restart gdm (svcadm restart gdm) and now I get a login screen
\n10. Realize that I disconnected the left monitor (VGA) to help debug and want it back
\n11. Logout and log back in. I now have dual screens and a working Solaris install again!<\/p>\n\n