Running OI a9 on HP xw8600 Following a hard shutdown from power outage; attempted boots produced an error message indicating a problem with the onboard battery and that the date was way off.
On booting to bios I discovered the date was on zeros all around. AFter resetting the date to its (then current) figures, a new boot went on to the point of bringing up the grub screen with possible versions to boot, defaulting to the most recent listed. That bootup brings up the opening screen of OI boot with the graphic of a completion gauge. That is, a white heavy walled long thin oval with a heavy white line inside. All on a blue background and with ilumos logo visible in lower right corner. On previous normal boots, that heavy white line turns red begining at the left and progressivly turning red to the right until the OS suddenly appears. Currently, I see the white line turning red for about the first inch and then a sudden reboot takes over. In other words, I'm unable to boot my OS beyond the first stages. I haven't had this kind of trouble for very long time and have forgotten how to perform an emergency boot. Further, once I've made an emergency boot I suspect the OS time is still completely off and possibly causing the unwanted sudden reboot. So a few main things: 1) How to get booted? Is it just a matter of booting from the old a8 iso then mounting some parts of the current os enough to chroot in and sets the time/date and see if that cures things? 2) Assuming I get an emergency boot accomplished... what do I need to mount to be able to chroot in and set time/date? 3) Is there a proceedure required for setting time/date on Solaris that is different from linux in major ways? _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
