In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Failed (?) boot/set-up on DELL Optiplex...:
Hi - tried to install from 'DVD' newest release.
But after few seconds the boot stop; displaying message:
'
illumos/x86 ZFS enabled bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
|
'
And nothing happens...
Machine is: DELL Optiplex 780, dated ~2013.
Hi Dariusz!
A few of us have recently been discussing ISO boot issues that impact some
Dell systems. The problem seems to mostly impact the Live/GUI DVD ISO.
The same DVD works on non-Dell systems, so it's something peculiar with
that ISO and the Dell BIOSes.
If you're comfortable using the text ISO installer, that should work. You
can upgrade a "text" system to one with the full GUI desktop after it has
been installed and has network access, if that's your ultimate goal.
Alternately, the Live/GUI USB (not ISO) worked on the Dell systems I
tested. It can be a little trickier to get the USB image written to a USB
flash drive correctly; a lot of USB software tries to be "helpful" and add
things to the final image. That can just cause additional problems.
The USB tools mentioned here:
http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#creating-a-hipster-usb-drive
have been known to work. Using 'dd' on a FreeBSD, Linux, or another OI
system is probably the most straightforward method, if you have one of
those systems already available.
Note that the instructions above mention Method 1 and Method 2. Method 2
(using a separate image header) is for older releases. You don't need
that with recent OI. Just use Method 1 and you should be fine.
Hopefully one of those choices will work for you!
Please report back if you are still having trouble with any of those.
Tim
--
Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu
Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure /
Division of Information Technology / 701-231-1076 (Voice)
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
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