Gary Mills <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:06:12PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've been running an hp xw8600 for several years and for about 5-6 of >> those yrs running openindiana OS. >> >> A month ago or so I shutdown OI to change out a couple of disks. >> >> Once I did that I have not been able to use any of the oi installation >> media I've made up. Both usb stick and DVD fails to boot, No matter >> how I set the boot order. And even though those same stick media will >> boot my HP Z800 to live media for OI install. >> >> I've tried all I can think, changing usb ports, Trying ISO from CD. >> The xw8600 has two of those, I set the boot order to CDrom first but it >> goes right buy with out a response and tries to boot from disk. > > It sounds as if you are not really setting the boot order in the BIOS. > Could it really that simple? HP does do some funny things with their > BIOS. Are you saving your changes after you make them? Does the BIOS > show the new boot order after the boot fails?
Here is how real the boot order is: First I can look at the setting in bios. Save and Close bios... then reopen and see my setting is still there. Further there is a switch early in boot where you can click F9 and wind up at a boot prompt where again I can see the order is correct. Currently I'm tying to install from and older version 2018.10. Burnded to DVD today. When the boot prompt opens I see CDrom at the top , usb next then hhd. I press cdrom... it pauses a few moments then reverts to the install on hard disk of ubuntu (zfs on root). It tell me there is no image on the cdrom. I put it on a different HP, this one HP Z800... and I'll give a guess what happens... it boots into the OI on the cdrom. I can assure you I have set the boot order depending on what media I'm attempting. > Some systems will not boot from USB, but in that case they will still > boot from a CD reader. I don't think that's your problem. So far that has not happened here. Except some years ago on this same host when I made my initial install, clear back to build 147. And a couple of months ago, I burned a USB stick with ubuntu on it. After getting sick of dicking around trying to install OI Booting from that stick right into ubuntu installation immediately. I want to say it points to our software being a problem where others work. But, I'm so unskilled as to be nearly certain that the fault is right in myu pea brain somewhere. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
