I don't have much in the way of details but I'm using that board with the Xeon equivalent (X3430) an 16GB of RAM. I never had a single hiccup or any thoughts of tweaking the install process. In fact I bounced between Sol11 and OI for a bit until I settled on OI, with never a thought on the install procedure.
Sorry I'm not much help. Good luck! -Russ Mobile message. Excuse the typos. On Mar 4, 2012, at 5:17 PM, "Tim Dunphy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have attempted to install Open Indiana 15a on a SuperMicro X8SIL > motherboard with 8 GB of ram and an Intel Core i3 CPU. I created the > usb installer from mac os X as described in the wiki. > > I was able to boot the X8SIL-F from the usb, but after I select the > version of open Indiana to boot (I have tried all the variants > starting with the first) and select the language US-English [47] and > select the English keyboard [7] I see a message reading 'configuring > system' and it reboots. I've tried several times and the result is the > same. > > I don't have any expansion cards and have tested the memory. > > I looked up my motherboard on the motherboard matrix on the oi wiki > and found this result: > > mATX > Intel 82574L dual nic and IPMI. > tested under oi_148b > > I have also tried yanking one of the memory chips and operating with > 4 GB of ram. > > Could it be that 15a is not compatible with the X8SIL-F motherboard? > If so is there a place where I can download the old oi_148b version? > > > Thanks in advance, > Tim > > > -- > GPG me!! > > gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
