I never had a problem before the Z840. My first Z400 never changed until the
MB died except for converting to a RAIDZ1 array and a bump from 3x 1 TB to 3x 2
TB. I bought the other 3 about 5 years ago.
The installs I've done on my test Z400 have always gone smoothly, but the BIOS
does some "magic" so you have to press F1 to continue the boot any time you
change a disk. That's probably why I never saw it before. This BIOS doesn't do
that. And I had loads of fun with it :-(
Sorting this cost me a lot, but at least it's a simple change to the install
process to fix. I think the issue is the graphics card as everything looks fine
in single user mode. It's when it attempts to start X that it crashed. The
Solaris and Linux install tests showed how much superior Hipster is. I'm going
to test rc1 on both the Z400 and Z840 to verify what change is needed in the
installed image to prevent this happening.
It's very little effort for those who are set up to do test installs to provide
test feedback to the developers. I'd like to see a regular program for doing
that.
Courtesy of assistance from Andy Fiddaman on the illumos-dev list, I now have a
disk with a 2020.10 based userland development environment. There's not a lot
to it, so an oi-dev pkg should take care of making it easier for users to fix
bugs they encounter. "pkg install oi-dev", locate the problem program and go to
work.
Once I recover a bit from the drubbing the Z840 gave me, I'm going to fix the
SEGVs in format(1m).
Have Fun!
Reg
On Friday, April 23, 2021, 03:37:30 PM CDT, Judah Richardson
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 2:43 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
It *appears* to be connected with selecting options 5, 6 & 7 before booting to
multi-user.
I do believe this was in 1 of the very 1st replies I made to you when you 1st
posted on this list ... it was either in the body or the link I posted. That
has always been the key to getting an OI installation to boot for the 1st time
on this end.
Glad you got it working; I just feel like you could have a lot sooner ;)
I'll investigate further after it's been running a while. I'm supposed have
64 GB of DRAM arrive today.
I'm purely guessing, but I suspect that the "Reconfigure" option is what made
it work.
This install was to a 3 disk RAIDZ1, so I have to redo the install for a 4 disk
RAIDZ2. I'll test my "Reconfigure" hypothesis when I do that.
There may be other wrinkles in the BIOS settings. I cannot find BIOS
documentation and this is my first encounter with a UEFI BIOS. The behavior
changed significantly when I updated the BIOS. I'm hoping that applied a
Spectre microcode patch.
Reg
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