Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard?
If you can, instead of disabling the cores in the BIOS, try to boot -kvd (kmdb w/ debug), and at the kmdb prompt, type “use_mp/W 0” to set use_mp to 0, then “:c” to continue the boot process. From: Robert Fisher Reply: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Date: July 21, 2018 at 5:03:32 PM To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard? > t seems that there were three BIOS updates since your original February post > regarding the motherboard. Perhaps you can take a chance updating to the > latest BIOS? I already tried that. No difference. > Or perhaps you can downgrade to a known working one? That's the real kicker. I can't. You upgrade above some specific version, and you can't then go back below it. The "working" one was below that threshold. But, IIRC I *never* got SmartOS to run on this board. Only Solaris 11. > How were you disabling the other cores? BIOS. I have messed about with debug mode and kmdb, but I didn't get very far. When I initially reported the issue there seemed some interest in fixing it, but about two days later Meltdown and Spectre surfaced. I would think that H110 and Skylake is far from an uncommon combination, and obviously the ideal solution for everyone would be to fix it. It's clearly something in the SunOS kernel. Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD all work perfectly. Solaris 10, SmartOS, Tribblix and OmniOS lock completely early in the boot process. Solaris 11.3 boots if only one core is exposed. If any kernel genius is interested in investigating, please talk to me. smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using AMPGpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125 Powered by Listbox: https://www.listbox.com
Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard?
> t seems that there were three BIOS updates since your original February post regarding the motherboard. Perhaps you can take a chance updating to the latest BIOS? I already tried that. No difference. > Or perhaps you can downgrade to a known working one? That's the real kicker. I can't. You upgrade above some specific version, and you can't then go back below it. The "working" one was below that threshold. But, IIRC I *never* got SmartOS to run on this board. Only Solaris 11. > How were you disabling the other cores? BIOS. I have messed about with debug mode and kmdb, but I didn't get very far. When I initially reported the issue there seemed some interest in fixing it, but about two days later Meltdown and Spectre surfaced. I would think that H110 and Skylake is far from an uncommon combination, and obviously the ideal solution for everyone would be to fix it. It's clearly something in the SunOS kernel. Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD all work perfectly. Solaris 10, SmartOS, Tribblix and OmniOS lock completely early in the boot process. Solaris 11.3 boots if only one core is exposed. If any kernel genius is interested in investigating, please talk to me. --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125 Powered by Listbox: https://www.listbox.com
Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard?
How were you disabling the other cores? If not doing so from the BIOS, probably the easiest way on SmartOS to do it is to boot w/ kmdb (-kd in the boot args) and when KMDB loads, type ‘use_mp/W 0’ then ‘:c’ to continue. If might also be useful to include the -v flag as well to see how far it’s getting in the boot process. From: Robert Fisher Reply: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Date: July 21, 2018 at 6:51:45 AM To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org Subject: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard? I've given up on the idea of any Illumos flavour ever running on my little home server, so I'm planning to swap out the main board. The backstory of this is that I successfully ran Solaris 11 on it (encrypted ZFS -- I'm paranoid) and when I upgraded the BIOS (I know, never upgrade the BIOS, but I was hoping to fix a NIC oddity) it no longer booted. I found if I disabled all but one core, Solaris would still boot, and I still run it that way, which is pretty unsatisfactory. SmartOS will not boot whatever I do. All other unix-like OSes run fine across all cores. I have posted about this on the list before, but to no avail. I don't want to buy a whole new machine, so I need a Mini ITX motherboard that'll take an i5 6400 (so 6th gen) CPU. Anyone got anything that's known to work? The one that doesn't is an ASUS H110I-Plus. thanks in advance Rob smartos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using AMPGpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125 Powered by Listbox: https://www.listbox.com
Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard?
I ran a SmartOS computenode on a https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/A2SDi-8C-HLN4F.cfm for a few years. Sadly it died earlier this year due to the hardware bug in the Avaton series CPU's. Other that, the board and atom CPU performed decently. Not as powerfull compared to a 2x Ivy Bridge based board. But well enough given the hardware specs. Regards Jorge July 21, 2018 7:25 PM, "Michal Nowak" wrote: > On 07/21/18 01:51 PM, Robert Fisher wrote: > >> I've given up on the idea of any Illumos flavour ever running on my >> little home server, so I'm planning to swap out the main board. >> >> The backstory of this is that I successfully ran Solaris 11 on it >> (encrypted ZFS -- I'm paranoid) and when I upgraded the BIOS (I know, >> never upgrade the BIOS, but I was hoping to fix a NIC oddity) it no >> longer booted. I found if I disabled all but one core, Solaris would >> still boot, and I still run it that way, which is pretty unsatisfactory. >> SmartOS will not boot whatever I do. All other unix-like OSes run fine >> across all cores. I have posted about this on the list before, but to no >> avail. >> >> I don't want to buy a whole new machine, so I need a Mini ITX >> motherboard that'll take an i5 6400 (so 6th gen) CPU. Anyone got >> anything that's known to work? The one that doesn't is an ASUS H110I-Plus. >> >> thanks in advance >> >> Rob > > Hi Rob, > > I don't know of a suitable mini ITX motherboard but it seems that there > were three BIOS updates since your original February post regarding the > motherboard. Perhaps you can take a chance updating to the latest BIOS? > Or perhaps you can downgrade to a known working one? > > Good luck, > Michal > --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125 Powered by Listbox: https://www.listbox.com
Re: [smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard?
On 07/21/18 01:51 PM, Robert Fisher wrote: I've given up on the idea of any Illumos flavour ever running on my little home server, so I'm planning to swap out the main board. The backstory of this is that I successfully ran Solaris 11 on it (encrypted ZFS -- I'm paranoid) and when I upgraded the BIOS (I know, never upgrade the BIOS, but I was hoping to fix a NIC oddity) it no longer booted. I found if I disabled all but one core, Solaris would still boot, and I still run it that way, which is pretty unsatisfactory. SmartOS will not boot whatever I do. All other unix-like OSes run fine across all cores. I have posted about this on the list before, but to no avail. I don't want to buy a whole new machine, so I need a Mini ITX motherboard that'll take an i5 6400 (so 6th gen) CPU. Anyone got anything that's known to work? The one that doesn't is an ASUS H110I-Plus. thanks in advance Rob Hi Rob, I don't know of a suitable mini ITX motherboard but it seems that there were three BIOS updates since your original February post regarding the motherboard. Perhaps you can take a chance updating to the latest BIOS? Or perhaps you can downgrade to a known working one? Good luck, Michal --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125 Powered by Listbox: https://www.listbox.com
[smartos-discuss] anyone know a SmartOS friendly Mini-ITX motherboard?
I've given up on the idea of any Illumos flavour ever running on my little home server, so I'm planning to swap out the main board. The backstory of this is that I successfully ran Solaris 11 on it (encrypted ZFS -- I'm paranoid) and when I upgraded the BIOS (I know, never upgrade the BIOS, but I was hoping to fix a NIC oddity) it no longer booted. I found if I disabled all but one core, Solaris would still boot, and I still run it that way, which is pretty unsatisfactory. SmartOS will not boot whatever I do. All other unix-like OSes run fine across all cores. I have posted about this on the list before, but to no avail. I don't want to buy a whole new machine, so I need a Mini ITX motherboard that'll take an i5 6400 (so 6th gen) CPU. Anyone got anything that's known to work? The one that doesn't is an ASUS H110I-Plus. thanks in advance Rob --- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125 Powered by Listbox: https://www.listbox.com
