I believe he means check that the SATA port the DVD drive is using is in plain "AHCI" mode in the bios settings, and not some "raid-capable" or "intel RST" mode. These other modes ask the OS to load different drivers, which may not be available.
Tim ________________________________ From: Andrew Robinson <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2022 4:59 PM To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <[email protected]> Cc: Discussion list for OpenIndiana <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Take me to your leader... WARNING: This message has originated from an External Source. This may be a phishing expedition that can result in unauthorized access to our IT System. Please use proper judgment and caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding to this email. Hi, On 6/6/2022 at 2:14 PM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote: >> Console login service(s) cannot run >This means that OpenIndiana doesn't have a driver for the DVD drive. (The early >boot uses BIOS routines, but as soon as the OS starts properly you need a >real driver.) Are you saying OpenIndiana doesn't support DVDs? >You don't say what hardware you have got, but one thing to check is that the DVD (and >disk drive) isn't handled by some form of raid, such as Intel RST; if there's a raid mode, >it needs to be disabled. But I'm not booting from any disk drive and there is no RAID (which doesn't make sense to me since RAID only applies to hard drives and not DVDs or CDs). Thanks, _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenindiana.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fopenindiana-discuss&data=05%7C01%7Ctsc5yc%40mst.edu%7C5eec1d542fc9450dc00d08da4807e026%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C637901495916303394%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5lwCjkSucevyARneiDPbCJT8HDTOMcOXrMPQMNTUw5E%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
