My 2008.05 OpenSolaris web/file/music server died this week. I figured I'd take the opportunity to get new boot drives and load a newer version, since I was in that buggy backwater that I would have had to reload anyway, and if I'm doing maintenance.....
Standing in Fry's with a 3 year old makes it very painful to try and check the HCL through my smartphone. Even so, I made a brave try of it, but after 20-30 minutes the son wasn't having any more of it. So I picked a hopefully likely looking MB, CPU, some memory, and along with the new drives I was outta there. So I got: Biostar TA880GB+ (upgraded to 7/02/10 firmware now) AMD Phenom II 3.2GHz 2 x 2Gb Patriot DDR3 1333Mhz Memory 2 x Hitachi 750Gb SATA drives My existing user data was on ZFS on two WDC 1T SATA drives. For good measure, I got a 600W Power Supply with more SATA power connectors (previous system had none and used adapter cables for power). I went ahead and had Fry's do their POST testing, and it passed that rudimentary test of the CPU + memory + MB. Booting the LiveCD for 2009.06 gets me nowhere. I'm pretty sure it's B111. Turning on -v shows that it just stops dead after the root on ramdisk:a line (never shows me SMBIOS version). Turning on -kv shows me a kernel panic in page_vpsub, pp = 0, *ppp = (all f's). I say "priming the pump" because the very little I've been able to find here about LiveCD problems suggests I should be using the B134 developer LiveCD, which is going to take overnight to finish downloading. I'm also pulling 2008.11 for good measure just in case going backwards at least lets me get it booted. So I'm going to try those and see what I can get. I'll also probably try a reasonably current Knoppix just to rule out OS-specifics. But if anyone has any suggestions meantime about Biostar MBs in general or this model or the T-Series, I'd be very happy to hear them. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
