Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on Dell R710 II
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on...: On 7. Nov 2019, at 21:47, Tim Mooney wrote: I was under the impression that UEFI boot did not work for any Illumos-based system. oh, we have uefi boot for a long time now. initially illumos was only running serial only, then with full console. Thanks for the clarification, Toomas. I'm sorry I somehow missed that. That's great news. 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 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on Dell R710 II
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on...: Cool so something was better this time round with the media Since the new ISOs and USB images are now released, unless either of you want me to test/compare something with the old ISOs, I plan to do all further testing with the 20191106 images. What you could try is booting via UEFI mode and see if that works. I was under the impression that UEFI boot did not work for any Illumos-based system. Has that changed? Or do you mean that testing UEFI mode might allow loader to get farther, even though booting will eventually fail because of missing UEFI support later in the process? My guess is that Dell broke something in the old Bios Bootloader code. That certainly could be. It's hard to understand why previously only 2 of OIs images encountered the issue, and now from Jedi's testing with the new images, it's down to just one that doesn't work. The new error you are getting from the gui image could also be a read error. Could you post the output of lsdev from the ok prompt? I'm still working on downloading the new images, but I will do so once I can test. Jedi may beat me to it. Tim On 07.11.19 19:34, Jedi Tek'Unum wrote: OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso works OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso works! This is a change from 20190511. I went back and tried 20190511 again and it still fails. OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso fails as before with loading CORE EXT words loading SEARCH & SEARCH-EXT words loading Johns-Hopkins locals loading MARKER loading ficl O-O extensions loading ficl utility classes loading ficl string classes \ start not found Type ‘?’ for a list of commands, ‘help’ for more detailed help. ok ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- 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 ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on Dell R710 II
Cool so something was better this time round with the media I talked to the developer of loader tsoome (cc'd as he is not on this list) today. Basically the situation you where experiencing with loader and the text image can only happen if the system is returning reads with one of following codes: result == 0x20 || result == 0x31 || result == 0x80 - we do not print error messages on those. 0x20 is controller failure, 31 and 80 are no media in drive If the system is reporting read errors, only thing loader can do is to reset the controller and try again - the biosdisk.c does 3 attempts there (except for those 3 errors). What you could try is booting via UEFI mode and see if that works. My guess is that Dell broke something in the old Bios Bootloader code. The new error you are getting from the gui image could also be a read error. Could you post the output of lsdev from the ok prompt? I am curious if loader is able to see the VirtualCD drive. Greetings Till On 07.11.19 19:34, Jedi Tek'Unum wrote: > OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso works > > OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso works! This is a change from 20190511. I went > back and tried 20190511 again and it still fails. > > OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso fails as before with > > loading CORE EXT words > loading SEARCH & SEARCH-EXT words > loading Johns-Hopkins locals > loading MARKER > loading ficl O-O extensions > loading ficl utility classes > loading ficl string classes > \ > start not found > > Type ‘?’ for a list of commands, ‘help’ for more detailed help. > ok > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on Dell R710 II
Hi Jedi, Can you report this on the OI bug tracker with your specific physical hardware or VM used?I have it working here, so can compare notes. ~K On Thursday, November 7, 2019, 10:34:27 AM PST, Jedi Tek'Unum wrote: OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso works OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso works! This is a change from 20190511. I went back and tried 20190511 again and it still fails. OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso fails as before with loading CORE EXT words loading SEARCH & SEARCH-EXT words loading Johns-Hopkins locals loading MARKER loading ficl O-O extensions loading ficl utility classes loading ficl string classes \ start not found Type ‘?’ for a list of commands, ‘help’ for more detailed help. ok ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on Dell R710 II
OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso works OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso works! This is a change from 20190511. I went back and tried 20190511 again and it still fails. OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso fails as before with loading CORE EXT words loading SEARCH & SEARCH-EXT words loading Johns-Hopkins locals loading MARKER loading ficl O-O extensions loading ficl utility classes loading ficl string classes \ start not found Type ‘?’ for a list of commands, ‘help’ for more detailed help. ok ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting OI DVD/USB
No answer as yet, interesting that on a parallel thread OI is found to have problems booting on other Dell machines, although on that thread they are servers while my machine is a humble desktop XPS8500, and a creaking Latitude 6410. On these machines other OS's - FreeBSD, Linux and Windows all boot happily. I found two useful Windows utilities for loading images onto USB drives, HDDRawCopy portable, and MiniTool Partition Wizard (pretty much like Gparted) and using those to prep a USB and download the image file, ends up with three (I think it was) partitions and boots with the same result as with the iso DVD. What I was puzzled about was the difference between what was proposed and the USB device filters in the machine/settings/USB page in VirtualBox which enables the Windows host USB port and device to be addressed by the VB guest. I'm not sure the result of loading the .usb image file and trying to boot from it will be any different from other results using the iso file. Thanks as ever for the support. On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting OI DVD/USB, Chris Game said...: Thanks for all the suggestions, but I don't follow this one at all. Did you get an answer to this question, Chris? The mailing list archive isn't working, so I don't know if someone else responded and I missed it, or not. If you're still looking for a little detail on this, hopefully I can help. Could you explain how to setup this USB forwarding; I certainly have VirtualBox and various USB flash keys/drives available but I'm unclear on how to set this up in the way you mention. Does this end with with bootable media? That's the aim here, certainly the DVD from the iso image and a few attempts to create bootable drives from the usb image files don't. Tim On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Till Wegmüller wrote: Ah yeah something with that DVD drive does not seem to allow to mount the live system properly. Basicly there are one/two files inside the ISO. solaris.zlib and solaris-misc.zlib (Ancient names from Sun times) These need to be mounted to /usr and /opt/misc respectively if that is not possible due to e.g. not finding the DVD drive then the live image cannot boot. I do not know the two Tools you used but the OpenSuSE page which is the OS with the most complete Windows instructions, mentions needing to select dd mode in rufus to successfully image images. Can you use Virtualbox? If so you could boot the ISO as a VM and use USB forwarding to dd the image via the VM to the USB. Hope this helps Greetings Till On 03.11.19 16:12, Chris Game wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Till Wegmüller wrote: Hi Sounds like a driver problem with the specific port you are using to boot that computer. You seem to be able to land in the ramdisk? Do you have "df" utility? If you issue "df -h" you should see that / is mounted from a device called "ramdisk:a". If not you landed in the loader shell. Which means loader would not support the Boot device you are trying to use. Have you tried on another USB Port? I have been using a real DVD after having some issues setting up a USB. There's no "df" in this maintenance mode, but? there is "mount" which shows / is mounted from ramdisk:a. Is UEFI enabled? can you disable it? Yes, makes no difference. Can you boot with VESA graphics mode? Vesa graphics not a choice at booting on this system. Can you boot with ACPI off? Yes, makes no difference. The last two are selectable from the Boot menu when you press 5 for more options. If any of that does not help, please reboot with verbose mode and share the error that shows on screen. There are a LOT of lines of output, the last few are: Hostname: openindiana REmounting root read/write Probing for device nodes Preparing Live image for use REquesting System Maintenance Mode Please be aware, that our ISO images are not Hybrid like linux ones. You must use the .usb images if you want to boot via usb. And you must write them to the stick directly not any partition. Ive been using both Rufus and the Win32 Diskimager (as I think was mentioned on the OI site). Both were causing some issues and crashes so I changed to using a real DVD burned from the 2019.04 iso file. Not sure how I can write a file directly as the is no dd function. Greetings Till On 03.11.19 12:45, Chris Game wrote: Hello everyone, Trying to boot using downloads of the current OI install/live? CD files, both the 2019.04 text install and the live DVD. Trying to boot from either the USB version or the DVD (iso) files. The boot process gets as far as the OI menu, spits out the SunOS line then insists on dropping into the Maintenance Mode instead of booting the system. Now I'm stuck - although I? have a root account there I have few options, worst of all there is no reboot command and even the /sbin/init command although it runs seem to have no effect, so shutdown is through the power button on the physical machine. Now, how to
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10
Thanks for the continued hard work, Alexander!
Lou Picciano
> On Nov 7, 2019, at 7:47 AM, Alexander Pyhalov via openindiana-discuss
> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 snapshot is ready.
>
> Images:
>
> http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso
> http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-gui-20191106.usb
>
> http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso
> http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-text-20191106.usb
>
> http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso
> http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.usb
>
>
> SHA 256 checksums are available at ${link}.sha256sum
> Signed SHA 256 checksums are available at ${link}.sha256sum.asc
> The OpenIndiana Release Engineering key has key id 0x3a021afadbe31887 (
> https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get=0x3A021AFADBE31887 ).
>
> Release notes:
> http://docs.openindiana.org/release-notes/2019.10-release-notes/
>
> Note, we have an issue with Firefox on live image - it can fail to start
> correctly when launched for the first time in memory-constrained
> environment. After being killed and restarted it behaves more sane.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander Pyhalov,
> system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10
Hi.
OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 snapshot is ready.
Images:
http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso
http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-gui-20191106.usb
http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso
http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-text-20191106.usb
http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso
http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/20191106/OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.usb
SHA 256 checksums are available at ${link}.sha256sum
Signed SHA 256 checksums are available at ${link}.sha256sum.asc
The OpenIndiana Release Engineering key has key id 0x3a021afadbe31887 (
https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get=0x3A021AFADBE31887 ).
Release notes: http://docs.openindiana.org/release-notes/2019.10-release-notes/
Note, we have an issue with Firefox on live image - it can fail to start
correctly when launched for the first time in memory-constrained environment.
After being killed and restarted it behaves more sane.
Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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