Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread Dale Ghent
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:13 PM, John Barfield wrote: > > I’m having several installer issues with the r151020 usb installer. > > It keeps crashing at different parts with different errors. Don't keep us in suspense! What are the errors you are seeing? > My question

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread Dan McDonald
The installer crashes, or OmniOS itself crashes? I'd like to know at least a bit more detail. Btw, the installer for the next release of OmniOS is brand new, based on our PXE installer Kayak. Between Loader replacing GRUB, Python2.7, and reports like yours, it's time to put Caiman out to

[OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread John Barfield
I’m having several installer issues with the r151020 usb installer. It keeps crashing at different parts with different errors. My question is: should I be using r151014 and run pkg update until the next LTS release? Or is there a best-practices doc that I need to follow to get r151020 working

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread John Barfield
Not using hardware RAID mode. It is using the on board SAS controller but I’m running in jbod or passthrough mode. Whatever its called on here. I just sent a list of errors that I’ve hit so far to the list replying to Dan McDonald. If you guys really want me to I’ll rerun the installer one

[OmniOS-discuss] Fwd: [developer] Review request: 7948 Remove old calendar utility

2017-03-07 Thread Dan McDonald
Not to be confused with cal(1), but does anyone here use calendar(1)? Trying to gauge how hard I should try to replace it or not. Thanks, Dan Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all) Begin forwarded message: > From: "Peter Tribble" > Date: March 7, 2017 at

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread John Barfield
Yeah, its definitely the hurry factor…this SAN was running r151012 and instead of upgrading I’m just reinstalling. (going on pretty long outage duration now) I did get python errors @99% the last time I ran the installer. Here are a list of issues I had (I did not write down the actual error

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread Dan McDonald
Disappearing disks is a sign what disk controller are you running? Dale mentioned some of those possibilities as well. Dan Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all) > On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:25 PM, John Barfield wrote: > > Yeah, its definitely the hurry

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Improved, but still alpha, ISO installer

2017-03-07 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Dan McDonald wrote: ; Please refresh your copy by downloading here: ; ; http://kebe.com/~danmcd/webrevs/r151021-kayak.iso I'm a bit late to the party but I've downloaded this and burned it to a CD (old school, I know) and tried booting a Dell R620. It hangs just after

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Improved, but still alpha, ISO installer

2017-03-07 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Andy Fiddaman wrote: > > I'm a bit late to the party but I've downloaded this and burned it to a > CD (old school, I know) and tried booting a Dell R620. It hangs just after > printing: > > loading ficl string class > / > > With

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread Dan McDonald
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 4:46 PM, John Barfield wrote: > > open() returned EIO: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pkg/manifest.py", line 1713, in gen_actions_by_type raise apx._convert_error(e) IOError: [Errno 5] I/O error 2017-03-07 15:38:08,494

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread Dan McDonald
>> The old card was: LSI SAS3081E-S Eeesh, that's the old 1068 chipset. >> New Card is: LSI BAT1S1P That's a battery backup part number. Odd. Dan ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread John Barfield
Yeah, I have two servers that came with those. I can’t figure out how to put them in jbod mode is the only problem. John Barfield Engineering and Stuff M: +1 (214) 425-0783 O: +1 (214) 506-8354 john.barfi...@bissinc.com 4925 Greenville Ave, Ste 900 Dallas, TX 75206 For Support

[OmniOS-discuss] Quick Test of r151021 ISO Install using Xen HVM and an "xdf" Device

2017-03-07 Thread Prakash Surya
Hey All, I just wanted to post and say that I've tested the new r151021 ISO installer using a Xen VM and was able to successfully perform the installation. Here's a copy of the Xen VM configuration that I used: # cat ami-template.cfg builder='hvm' name='ami-template' vcpus=4 memory=4096

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread John Barfield
I caught that and pulled the SAS HBA. I’ve got another Oracle RAID controller card in now and the installer just finished. The old card was: LSI SAS3081E-S New Card is: LSI BAT1S1P Thanks for the help. I just did an old fashioned hardware RAID1 in the LSI GUI. John Barfield Engineering and

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] r151020 installer issues

2017-03-07 Thread Dale Ghent
> On Mar 7, 2017, at 5:22 PM, John Barfield wrote: > > I caught that and pulled the SAS HBA. I’ve got another Oracle RAID controller > card in now and the installer just finished. > > The old card was: LSI SAS3081E-S > > New Card is: LSI BAT1S1P > > Thanks for the

[OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

2017-03-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
Hi. I am looking at ordering a new 3U supermicro server. as an all-in one. I have been using these recently: https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/3U/6038/SSG-6038R-E1CR16L.cfm It has the LSI 3008 HBA in IT mode. Any other suggestions out there? thanks, Geoff

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

2017-03-07 Thread Stephan Budach
- Ursprüngliche Mail - > Von: "Dan McDonald" > An: "Geoff Nordli" > CC: "omnios-discuss" > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 02:21:20 > Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server > > > > On Mar 7, 2017, at

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

2017-03-07 Thread Ergi Thanasko
No LSI controller on those, they connect directly to the CPU with razor cards. In theory they can utilize the entire bus speed but in the backplane you get around 2GB/sec throughout on each nvme drive. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 7, 2017, at 11:25 PM, Stephan Budach

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

2017-03-07 Thread Geoff Nordli
On 2017-03-07 09:35 PM, Stephan Budach wrote: - Ursprüngliche Mail - Von: "Dan McDonald" An: "Geoff Nordli" CC: "omnios-discuss" Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 02:21:20 Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

2017-03-07 Thread Stephan Budach
- Ursprüngliche Mail - > Von: "Dan McDonald" > An: "Geoff Nordli" > CC: "omnios-discuss" > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 07:44:30 > Betreff: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server > > You didn't mention

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Quick Test of r151021 ISO Install using Xen HVM and an "xdf" Device

2017-03-07 Thread Stephan Budach
Hi Prakash, - Ursprüngliche Mail - > Von: "Prakash Surya" > An: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 01:55:19 > Betreff: [OmniOS-discuss] Quick Test of r151021 ISO Install using Xen > HVM and an "xdf" Device > Hey All, > I just

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] new supermicro server

2017-03-07 Thread Dan McDonald
You didn't mention anything in the original note about NVMe, and neither did the spec sheet. NVMe 1.0 and 1.1 should work on 020 and later OmniOS. Hang out on the illumos developers list to see the latest on that front. Dan Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)