Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool import not possible after slot change

2021-04-23 Thread Chris
On 2021-04-23 11:30, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am 23.04.21 um 19:48 schrieb Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss: "the inner workings of an operating system so complicated that no one person actually understands all of it" Bryan Cantrill in the Foreword to "Solaris Internals" , McDougall

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-*20210405.iso installer difference

2021-04-23 Thread Judah Richardson
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 8:12 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > I reported yesterday on the 15-character limit I saw that and meant to comment on it, but was busy. This sounds to me like a holdover from Solaris' mission to be a drop-in solution for Active Directory/Windows domains. Windows

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-23 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I should like to say that from my perspective as the person who started this thread I consider your results 100% successful. My goal was to increase the involvement of the user community in the process of creating a new release. It is a tremendous amount of work and many of us such as myself

[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-*20210405.iso installer difference

2021-04-23 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
I reported yesterday on the 15-character limit in the text installer's domain name question, and easily fixed affected files in the /etc tree. I noticed another difference today. The GUI installer asks nothing about networking, and just assumes DHCP, whereas the text installer asks whether

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-23 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
This progress report is 2/3 positive. I reported yesterday of my problems with frozen mouse cursor in the GUI install from http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/hipster/test/OI-hipster-gui-20210405.iso on CentOS 7.9.2009 with virt-manager 1.5.0 and qemu-system-x86_64 2.0.0. Later that day,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Z840 "fun". At least Solaris 11.4 works :-)

2021-04-23 Thread John D Groenveld
In message <2578ea77-f9bc-e7a1-4583-eee292a6a...@duedinghausen.eu>, Stephan Alt haus writes: >Just in case you have no experience yet with using nvidia drivers, this >will help: > >https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Nvidia+Graphics > >NVidia drivers: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Successfull reboot of 2021.04-rc1 on Z840 w/ K5000 :-)

2021-04-23 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I never had a problem before the Z840. My first Z400 never changed until the MB died except for converting to a RAIDZ1 array and a bump from 3x 1 TB to 3x 2 TB. I bought the other 3 about 5 years ago. The installs I've done on my test Z400 have always gone smoothly, but the BIOS does some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Successfull reboot of 2021.04-rc1 on Z840 w/ K5000 :-)

2021-04-23 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I'm not doing a "devfsadm -C -c disks" when I'm swapping USB drives around, but I did do that recently and baffled myself for a few minutes and made some disks disappear before I laughed and fixed it. I have a Z400 just for swapping disks around and testing stuff. It's a great use for old

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Successfull reboot of 2021.04-rc1 on Z840 w/ K5000 :-)

2021-04-23 Thread Judah Richardson
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 2:43 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > It *appears* to be connected with selecting options 5, 6 & 7 before > booting to multi-user. I do believe this was in 1 of the very 1st replies I made to you when you 1st

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Successfull reboot of 2021.04-rc1 on Z840 w/ K5000 :-)

2021-04-23 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 23. Apr 2021, at 23:20, Stephan Althaus > wrote: > > On 04/23/21 09:42 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: >> It *appears* to be connected with selecting options 5, 6 & 7 before booting >> to multi-user. I'll investigate further after it's been running a while. >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Successfull reboot of 2021.04-rc1 on Z840 w/ K5000 :-)

2021-04-23 Thread Stephan Althaus
On 04/23/21 09:42 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: It *appears* to be connected with selecting options 5, 6 & 7 before booting to multi-user. I'll investigate further after it's been running a while. I'm supposed have 64 GB of DRAM arrive today. I'm purely guessing, but

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Successfull reboot of 2021.04-rc1 on Z840 w/ K5000 :-)

2021-04-23 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
It *appears* to be connected with selecting options 5, 6 & 7 before booting to multi-user. I'll investigate further after it's been running a while. I'm supposed have 64 GB of DRAM arrive today. I'm purely guessing, but I suspect that the "Reconfigure" option is what made it work. This

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool import not possible after slot change

2021-04-23 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 23.04.21 um 19:48 schrieb Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss: "the inner workings of an operating system so complicated that no one person actually understands all of it" Bryan Cantrill in the Foreword to "Solaris Internals" , McDougall and Mauro, 2nd ed 2007 This is true of any

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] zpool import not possible after slot change

2021-04-23 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
"the inner workings of an operating system so complicated that no one person actually understands all of it" Bryan Cantrill in the Foreword to "Solaris Internals" , McDougall and Mauro, 2nd ed 2007 This is true of any production level OS whether Windows, Linux, BSD or Solaris derived. The

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-23 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 23. Apr 2021, at 14:49, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > > Hmmm, > > That suggests that I was perhaps too optimistic about using disks >2 TB > despite having successfully installed 2020.10 on a single slice 5 TB disk. > > I've got S11.4 installed and running again. > > Reg > Simple test

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-23 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
Hmmm, That suggests that I was perhaps too optimistic about using disks >2 TB despite having successfully installed 2020.10 on a single slice 5 TB disk. I've got S11.4 installed and running again. Reg On Friday, April 23, 2021, 01:26:37 AM CDT, Toomas Soome wrote: On 23. Apr

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-23 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 22. Apr 2021, at 16:49, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > > > I don't understand "adapter". I'm using a Display Port on the K5000 feeding > an HP DP to DVI adapter to the DVI port of the 1600x1200 Princeton monitor. I am sorry, I meant video controller or card. With UEFI world, the boot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

2021-04-23 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 23. Apr 2021, at 01:57, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > > What do those mean? I have seen them numerous times even though the system > booted. > > > > On Thursday, April 22, 2021, 05:46:30 PM CDT, Nelson H. F. Beebe > wrote: > > > ZFS: i/o error - all