On 04.11.19 12:41, Chris Game wrote: > Interestingly the DVD fails to boot in the same way when I tried to > do so on another machine here - also a Dell but a different model > and much older. Nothing seems wrong with the iso file when I boot it > using VirtualBox. Looking at the files using the Maintenance Mode > account which opens after the failed boot, shows a confusing mass of > files under /devices and links under /dev/disk, so I gave up on > trying to manually mount files from that mode. Perhaps you can > suggest some way forward on that. The boot sequence shows it can > access the files on the DVD as it loads eg loader.conf happily.
So it is the drive from the Dell servers which are somehow special... Is it some special SAS controller? SCSI? Yes you don't want to look with the file utilities into the disks :) The Utilities to use are diskinfo, cfgadm and format. Simply calling these programms without arguments shows you the disks and cfgadm shows you the ports the OS sees. Loader and the OS are two components. It looks like loader can access the files through a compatibility layer but the OS does not have the driver for that specific drive. Greetings Till _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
