On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Till Wegmüller wrote:
Hi
Sounds like a driver problem with the specific port you are using to
boot that computer. You seem to be able to land in the ramdisk? Do you
have "df" utility? If you issue "df -h" you should see that / is mounted
from a device called "ramdisk:a". If not you landed in the loader shell.
Which means loader would not support the Boot device you are trying to
use. Have you tried on another USB Port?
I have been using a real DVD after having some issues setting up a
USB. There's no "df" in this maintenance mode, but there is "mount"
which shows / is mounted from ramdisk:a.
Is UEFI enabled? can you disable it?
Yes, makes no difference.
Can you boot with VESA graphics
mode?
Vesa graphics not a choice at booting on this system.
Can you boot with ACPI off?
Yes, makes no difference.
The last two are selectable from the
Boot menu when you press 5 for more options.
If any of that does not help, please reboot with verbose mode and share
the error that shows on screen.
There are a LOT of lines of output, the last few are:
Hostname: openindiana
REmounting root read/write
Probing for device nodes
Preparing Live image for use
REquesting System Maintenance Mode
Please be aware, that our ISO images are not Hybrid like linux ones. You
must use the .usb images if you want to boot via usb. And you must write
them to the stick directly not any partition.
Ive been using both Rufus and the Win32 Diskimager (as I think was
mentioned on the OI site). Both were causing some issues and crashes
so I changed to using a real DVD burned from the 2019.04 iso file.
Not sure how I can write a file directly as the is no dd function.
Greetings
Till
On 03.11.19 12:45, Chris Game wrote:
Hello everyone,
Trying to boot using downloads of the current OI install/live CD
files, both the 2019.04 text install and the live DVD. Trying to
boot from either the USB version or the DVD (iso) files. The boot
process gets as far as the OI menu, spits out the SunOS line then
insists on dropping into the Maintenance Mode instead of booting the
system. Now I'm stuck - although I have a root account there I
have few options, worst of all there is no reboot command and even
the /sbin/init command although it runs seem to have no effect, so
shutdown is through the power button on the physical machine.
Now, how to get this Live DVD to Boot? Linux DVDs do boot, as does
Windows, it only seems a prob with OI files.
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