In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on...:
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on...:
That is definetly the Bootloader.
I would like to know some more.
Can the same server boot FreeBSD?
Does Archlinux boot in BIOS mode?
Both FreeBSD 12.1 (I used the DVD) and ArchLinux boot just fine on the
Dell R710 and R730 I've been testing with. As I previously reported, these
systems have had RHEL on them, so they work with RHEL 6's grub 0.97+patches
and RHEL 7's grub 2.02+patches.
I haven't tested any of the Omni* ISOs, but Jedi tested one, and it
worked.
Perhaps most importantly, Jedi's testing shows that the
oi-hipster-minimal-20190511.iso works.
Whatever the problem is, it seems to be specific to the -text and -gui
ISOs and some Dell hardware.
I found Michal's download link and downloaded his snapshots from November
1. Both the OpenIndiana_Live_X86.iso and the OpenIndiana_Text_X86.iso
fail to boot, but they both exhibit different issues than what the
20190511 ISOs were showing. Considering these are test ISOs, I don't know
how concerned we should be that they fail in different ways, but at least
the OpenIndiana_Text_X86.iso outputs:
Loading unix...
Loading /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive...
zf_read: fill error
Loading /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive.hash
Booting...
No rootfs module provided, aborting
and then loops through that again and then drops to an ok prompt. That's
certainly different than the 20190511-text not even finding the
boot_archive.
Tim
On 06.11.19 20:47, Tim Mooney wrote:
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on...:
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails
on...:
I’m no expert on iso boot images but it seems odd that minimal works and
text and gui don’t.
Agreed.? If I can find some time, I may do some testing with our R720s
or R730s, to see if I have the same experience.
I found some time and some hardware, and have at least one interesting
datapoint.
I downloaded the OI-hipster-text-20190511.iso, and verified its sha256
checksum.
I tried booting that on a Dell R730 via the Virtual CD through iDRAC,
which failed.
I then burned the ISO to a physical DVD and tried booting the same R730,
which still failed.
However, using the same ISO, I was able to boot an HP EliteDesk
workstation without any issues.
I then tried the ISO on a different Dell system (an R710, with older
firmware) and experienced the same boot failure.
All the Dell systems I've tried show that they're set to use BIOS,
not UEFI.
The boot errors are the same on all the Dell systems I've tried.
Either after pressing Enter at the configuration menu or letting
the boot countdown run down, I see:
Loading unix...
error reading: input/output errorcan't load file
'/platform/i86pc/amd64/unix': input/output error
Loading i86pc/kernel/amd64...
can't find 'i86pc/kernel/amd64'
Loading unix...
can't find 'unix'
Loading i86pc/kernel/amd64...
can't find 'i86pc/kernel/amd64'
Loading i86pc/kernel/amd64...
can't find 'i86pc/kernel/amd64'
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Loading unix...
Loading unix...
error reading: input/output errorcan't load file
'/platform/i86pc/kernel/adm64/unix': input/output error
and so on, until it eventually drops to an OK prompt.
Whatever is going on, I'm only seeing it on our Dell servers, but the
problem is the same on each of the platform generations I've tried.
Since both Jedi and I can reproduce this problem, if someone has some
suggestions for what debugging steps we should try, one of us might be
able to make some progress on this.
Tim
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