Ah yeah something with that DVD drive does not seem to allow to mount the live system properly.
Basicly there are one/two files inside the ISO. solaris.zlib and solaris-misc.zlib (Ancient names from Sun times) These need to be mounted to /usr and /opt/misc respectively if that is not possible due to e.g. not finding the DVD drive then the live image cannot boot. I do not know the two Tools you used but the OpenSuSE page which is the OS with the most complete Windows instructions, mentions needing to select dd mode in rufus to successfully image images. Can you use Virtualbox? If so you could boot the ISO as a VM and use USB forwarding to dd the image via the VM to the USB. Hope this helps Greetings Till On 03.11.19 16:12, Chris Game wrote: > > > > 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openindiana-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openindiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
