Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's HASWELL support like on OI?

> On 29. Jan 2021, at 23:20, Stephan Althaus > wrote: > > On 01/29/21 17:29, Chris wrote: >> On 2021-01-28 23:38, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: >>> On 29.01.21 06:48, Chris wrote: Maybe I'm spoiled, because the (Free)BSD console(s) are great. I can CTRL+ALT+F(1-12) for a new session,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

> On 3. Feb 2021, at 20:06, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've been running an hp xw8600 for several years and for about 5-6 of > those yrs running openindiana OS. > > A month ago or so I shutdown OI to change out a couple of disks. > > Once I did that I have not been able to use any of the oi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

> On 3. Feb 2021, at 23:11, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss > writes: > > [...] > >>> So, I'm hoping someone here will have sage advice about booting from >>> network somehow. >>> >>> Is there a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to boot OpenIndiana with Grub2?

> On 4. Feb 2021, at 14:55, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > I wanted to know if I could boot OI using Grub2 on Q4OS before actual > installing OI on my system. And if it's possible could you give me a working > config for grub.cfg? Thanks. > > before installing? you can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

> On 30. Jan 2021, at 10:39, Chris wrote: > > On 2021-01-30 00:03, Toomas Soome wrote: >>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 09:40, Chris wrote: >>> On 2021-01-29 22:24, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: >>>>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:43, Chris wrote: >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

> On 30. Jan 2021, at 06:52, Chris wrote: > > On 2021-01-29 17:57, Gary Mills wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 05:02:21PM -0800, Chris wrote: >>> OK just dragged a Dell Optiplex 790 off the shelf >>> with a 4 core 8 thread i5 CPU in it, and as much RAM >>> as I could jam in it. >>> BIOS: >>>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

> On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:43, Chris wrote: > > On 2021-01-29 17:18, Andy Fiddaman wrote: >> On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Chris wrote: >> ; OK just dragged a Dell Optiplex 790 off the shelf >> ; with a 4 core 8 thread i5 CPU in it, and as much RAM >> ; as I could jam in it. >> ; BIOS: >> ; boot UEFI >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

> On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:57, Gary Mills wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 05:02:21PM -0800, Chris wrote: >> OK just dragged a Dell Optiplex 790 off the shelf >> with a 4 core 8 thread i5 CPU in it, and as much RAM >> as I could jam in it. >> BIOS: >> boot UEFI > > You can't do that. You

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What's HASWELL support like on OI?

> On 29. Jan 2021, at 07:48, Chris wrote: > > On 2021-01-28 19:48, Gary Mills wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 05:35:38PM -0800, Chris wrote: >>> I'm trying to find some combination of hardware that will >>> produce reasonable performance at the console. >> By console, do you mean the raw

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

> On 30. Jan 2021, at 16:22, Gary Mills wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 08:19:16AM +0200, Toomas Soome via > openindiana-discuss wrote: >> >>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:57, Gary Mills wrote: >>> >>> The loader works in UEFI mode, but OI do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

> On 30. Jan 2021, at 09:40, Chris wrote: > > On 2021-01-29 22:24, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: >>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 03:43, Chris wrote: >>> On 2021-01-29 17:18, Andy Fiddaman wrote: >>>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Chris wrote: >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Prerelease version of OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 for SPARC available for testing

Also please note: https://code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/1408 rgds, toomas > On 17. Jun 2021, at 12:49, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Hello all! > > > A new prerelease version of OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 for SPARC is > available for

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The Register today

> On 10. May 2021, at 09:55, Tony Brian Albers wrote: > > https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/10/illumos_deprecates_sparc_support/?td=keepreading-btm > > Sad, but that's the way it is. > Please note that while IPD is filed, there is not yet line drawn, at least I want to get few updates

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The Register today

> On 10. May 2021, at 10:33, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss writes: >> Please note that while IPD is filed, there is not yet line drawn, at least I >> want to get few updates integrated so whoever will decide to create fork, >&

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The Register today

> On 10. May 2021, at 12:05, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > Toomas Soome writes: >> The immediate issue is https://www.illumos.org/issues/2757. In core, this >> issue means that negative 32-bit numbers are not translated to negative >> 64-bit numbers. Currently used gcc 4.4.4 does implement such

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] improving ZFS latency with hard disks

> On 16. May 2021, at 06:54, d...@loud-mouth.net wrote: > > Le me know if ZFS questions should be asked to another group. > > Problem: A documentation application takes several minutes to open documents > containing large numbers of links to images. Aparently, the application is > making

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no new boot environment?

> On 5. Jun 2021, at 11:47, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: > > Hello, > I see that OI is not creating a new boot environment since april, just the > backup ones. Is this normal? > it depends on package(s). installing/updating package(s) may not create anything, may create backup be or may

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about System Monitor

From vmstat, the sr (scan rate) is better indicator - if you see sr column > 0, it means the kernel is spending time searching for usable memory pages, and if this does happen often, it is time to review the memory consumers/add more RAM. Toomas > On 8. Jul 2021, at 17:55, Richard L. Hamilton

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

> On 7. Jul 2021, at 10:53, david allan finch wrote: > > Hi, > > I have not installed openindiana on real hardware for sometime, done it lots > of times via a iso on virtualbox. > > I copied the latest usb image with Win32DiskImager on to a usb thumbdrive. > > When it boot I get: > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

> On 7. Jul 2021, at 11:13, david allan finch wrote: > > On 07/07/21 09:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: >> disk-1: is error about boot loader stage 1 being unable to identify the boot >> disk (partition read failure or filesystem read failure

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Insufficient Disk space for updates reported

> On 10. Jul 2021, at 13:20, bscuk2 wrote: > > Dear All, > > After recent updates this is the information on the system. Insufficient disk > space available (648.02 MB) for estimated need (2.48 GB) for Download cache > > The disk is a Samsung Pro 250 SSD M.2 with an estimated 71 GB used in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

> On 1. May 2021, at 10:31, Michelle wrote: > > Well, I looked over my notes and the last time I did this was in 2014. > > My preference has always been to run OI on its own drive and have the > main ZFS tank as a "whole drive" basis. However, thanks to the QNAP, > that's changed. > > In

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

> On 1. May 2021, at 11:10, Michelle wrote: > > I'm just going to try breaking it down to two Solaris 2 partitions and > see where that takes me. > > Michelle. Solaris2 (as MBR partition type) - our tools assume there is one Solaris2 partition. As you have 6TB disks, you can not really use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

> On 1. May 2021, at 15:22, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > >  > I just went through several iterations of this, and like you the last time I > had done it was long ago. The following is based on 2021.04.05. > > Large disks require an EFI or GPT label. The gparted

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Partitions for co-exist NAS drive

> On 1. May 2021, at 15:30, Michelle wrote: > > That's where I'm becoming unstuck. > > A Solaris 2 partition will only see the first 2Tb. > > There hangs my first problem. > > If I try and create any other partition it gives me the warning about > the 2TB limit and if I then try and create

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

VESA only can work when adapter does have VESA/VGA bios. With UEFI, there is no requirement to have it. Sent from my iPhone > On 22. Apr 2021, at 16:26, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > >  > VESA *does* work with a UEFI boot. I had 2020.10 booting from a 4x 4 TB >

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

> 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] The kiss of death

> On 24. Apr 2021, at 22:52, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > > [This is temporarily off the openindiana-discuss mailing list] > > You wrote on Sat, 24 Apr 2021 11:58:06 -0400 > >>> That is after the boot loader menu. >>> The second page of loader includes an option to boot from alt BEs. > > If

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

> On 25. Apr 2021, at 00:53, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > > Toomas Soome mailto:tso...@me.com>> responds today: > >>> ... On 24. Apr 2021, at 23:56, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: Thanks for the additional suggestions to get the CentOS-7 based OpenIndiana to boot. Here is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

> On 24. Apr 2021, at 23:56, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > > Thanks for the additional suggestions to get the CentOS-7 based > OpenIndiana to boot. Here is what I get: > > boot: status > disk device: > disk0: BIOS driver C (167772160 X 512) > disk0s1:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Initial install of 2020.10 on Z840 for production use

> On 25. Apr 2021, at 23:46, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > I've done a fresh install using the text installer on a 14 core E5-2680 V4 > system with 72 GB of ECC DRAM and a 4x 4 TB 7200 rpm RAIDZ2 array. With > reconfigure set on the post install boot it all came

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We have install images which work!

> On 4. May 2021, at 22:09, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > I was doing bare metal on an HP Z840. Does anyone know of any documentation > on the VBox boot process? It's obviously not running the BIOS initial loader > to read the first sector on the disk. > > Reg >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-hipster-gui-20210430.iso progress report on 3 virtualization system

> On 5. May 2021, at 00:41, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > > I've now made installation attempts with the > OI-hipster-gui-20210430.iso image on these three virtualization > systems: > > * CentoS 7.9virt-manager/QEMU > * Ubuntu 20.04 virt-manager/QEMU > * Ubuntu 20.04

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiboot on PC

Partitioning, MBR updates and details like that aside, this is some example about BE menu: root@test:/home/tsoome# bootadm list-menu the location for the active menu is: /rpool/boot/menu.lst INDEX NAMEDEVICE TYPE DEFAULT 0

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiboot on PC

o use chainloader (point it to OS partition), then you are not depending on file system reader implementation etc etc. rgds, toomas > > Le lun. 3 mai 2021 à 13:06, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss < > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> a écrit : > >> Parti

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Rolling release considered harmful

> On 4. May 2021, at 15:24, Yassine Chaouche > wrote: > > Le 5/4/21 à 5:24 AM, Judah Richardson a écrit : >> From a practical perspective, I don't think OI has the option you want. >> It's a rolling release distribution. I > So, just to be clear for outsiders like myself. I thought Hipster >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Rolling release considered harmful

> On 4. May 2021, at 16:01, Yassine Chaouche > wrote: > > Le 5/4/21 à 1:54 PM, Aurélien Larcher a écrit : >>> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 2:40 PM Judah Richardson >>> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 4, 2021, 07:25 Yassine Chaouche >>> wrote: Le 5/4/21 à 5:24 AM, Judah Richardson a écrit : >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Rolling release considered harmful

> On 4. May 2021, at 16:55, Yassine Chaouche > wrote: > > Le 5/4/21 à 2:34 PM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss a écrit : >> Upgrades of Ubuntu LTS break more than OI on my server and without any >> possibility of rollback to a previous boot environment... >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Updates in OI

> On 4. May 2021, at 16:27, Dave Miner wrote: > >  > > On 5/4/2021 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > Le 5/4/21 à 1:43 PM, Stephan Althaus a écrit : > >> > >> Hello! > >> > >> We have "Boot environments" > >> > >> On every "pkg update" you get a new BE that will be used on next reboot. > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 10:39, Chris wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 2021-01-30 00:03, Toomas Soome wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 09:40, Chris wrote: >>>>>>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to boot OpenIndiana with Grub2?

Please note, oracle grub2 and oracle zfs are very different in this case; also public grub2 is very different. The best option would be to chainload, but I have not tested the grub2 EFI chainload for a very long time. You would need to create ESP:Efi/illumos/boot/loader64.efi and then grub

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing Solaris 10 u8

> On 24. Mar 2021, at 02:50, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > My Solaris 10 u8 instance is rather dated. I'd like to update it, but there > are some absolute requirements: > > Sun/Forte/Oracle Developer Studio If that is required, then the only option are solaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

> On 29. Mar 2021, at 06:38, irixuzer wrote: > > Hi > I'm new to the list. Ive been trying to mount usb devices. After the first > time, which was successful, I've been getting the following: > > > $ sudo rmformat -l > ... > 6. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0p0 >Physical Node:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] timezone

> On 31. Mar 2021, at 06:51, irixuzer wrote: > > I'll bet this is a real classic question. How Do I get OI and dos clocks > to agree? I sort of remember how to configure it in solaris 7 and 8. I'm > on the US West coast. and OI is telling me it's 8:33PM and it really is > around 1:33 PM.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Obstacle to GPT label boot?

> On 19. Mar 2021, at 02:31, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev > wrote: > > Would someone please direct me to an explanation of why we can't boot from > disk >2 TB in 2021? root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c3t0d0

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [discuss] Obstacle to GPT label boot?

> On 19. Mar 2021, at 03:34, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev > wrote: > > Judah has nailed the issue. > > Hipster 2020.10 will not install with a GPT/EFI label. Clearly stated 2 TB > limit in the installer. I was quite shocked. And annoyingly noisy about it :-( > > I am happy to fix things

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Obstacle to GPT label boot?

great. If you built the PC yourself, I'd appreciate the brand and model of > the motherboard > my host is a bit old already, it is Supermicro X10SAE with Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU E3-1246 v3 @ 3.50GHz. It is doing ok for my needs (illumos dev and build host). rgds, toomas > > On Fri, M

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Obstacle to GPT label boot?

the motherboard >> > > my host is a bit old already, it is Supermicro X10SAE with Intel(r) Xeon(r) > CPU E3-1246 v3 @ 3.50GHz. It is doing ok for my needs (illumos dev and build > host). > Thanks for the info! > > rgds, > toomas > >> >> On Fri,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems after updating to latest Hipster - Nvidia versions

> On 17. Mar 2021, at 22:50, Stephan Althaus > wrote: > > On 03/17/21 06:38 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote: >> And here is the output from the fmdump command: >> >> >> TIME UUID >> SUNW-MSG-ID >> Μαρ 08 2021

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

> On 2. Mar 2021, at 20:25, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > The ENOENTs refer to libraries associated with the optional 3rd party > commercial product Veritas Volume Manager. format attempts to check for > conflicting uses of a raw device, such as if it is being managed by VxVM, > Solaris

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone running OI on VPS?

> On 25. Feb 2021, at 17:47, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > Do you run OI on VPS or dedicated server? > > Does OI suitable to run on a VPS at all? > > It seems normal cheap VPS plan of many host providers will be not enough. OI > takes much more disk space than Linux

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Resizing?

> On 1. Mar 2021, at 22:18, L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > I don't need to do this, so this can be an academic discussion: I can resize > a drive in a hypervisor, but can I resize a zpool afterwards or are we > talking exporting, creating a new pool and importing on it? >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

> On 2. Mar 2021, at 00:29, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev > wrote: > > That was singularly unsuccessful. It got confused by all the other pools and > apparently FreeBSD 12.2 created a "zroot" pool which was "corrupted" and > could not be destroyed in any fashion using zpool. I'll find out

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

> On 2. Mar 2021, at 02:45, Reginald Beardsley wrote: > > > It is with deep regret that I say this. > > I shall not be working on Illumos/OI. Below is the terminal output using the > Hipster 2020.10 GUI install disk. I've always been amused by the enthusiasm > for threads. I bought John

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

> On 2. Mar 2021, at 13:08, cretin1997 wrote: > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 3:35 PM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss > wrote: >> >> Yes, the code of format command is mess (I have been in it more than I would >> lik

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

> On 25. Feb 2021, at 14:30, Thebest videos wrote: > > Hi Toomas, > > I was trying to understand zpool spare functionality, so as part of that im > doing as below > I have 15 disks as 3 vdevs(5 disks in each vdev) and 2 disks as spare. so i > removed one disk which is part of one of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

> On 2. Mar 2021, at 21:32, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > > LoL! > > It has become completely nuts. We have MBR, GPT, EFI UEFI and probably some I > don't yet know about. They may or may not be exactly the same depending upon > the persuasions of the OS or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer FAIL #3

> On 2. Mar 2021, at 21:08, Gary Mills wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 09:17:31AM -0500, John D Groenveld wrote: >> In message <20210302014545.ga6...@imap.fastmail.com>, Gary Mills writes: >>> These are Solaris partions, now called slices. They are within a >>> single FDISK partition.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

> On 5. Mar 2021, at 08:56, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, March 5, 2021 10:31 AM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > >> I think the point was "small on disk" does not imply "small in RAM". >> >> As I noted

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

> On 3. Mar 2021, at 18:13, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > Categorically does *not* work on my 4 slot Z400. It kernel panics before it > reaches the single user milestone using the device specified in the prtconf > -v output from my system. With the"2822" device

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

> On 4. Mar 2021, at 18:04, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: > > On 04.03.21 16:43, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: >> OK I just made several attempts: >> First attempt was with 2020.10 GUI install ISO. That was forced to >> maintenance mode and was unable to locate libpcidb.so.1

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

> On 1. Mar 2021, at 05:55, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > The Debian derived gparted disk did not offer any zfs FS types. > > Out of curiosity I just booted FreeBSD 12.2 and messed with gpart. It does > not offer "apple-zfs as an option. Aside from ZFS not being

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor RAIDZ disk failure

> On 1. Mar 2021, at 11:28, Thebest videos wrote: > > Hi Team, > > i need to set an alert system(prometheus) for if any disk failures in RAIDZ > like DEGRADED/OFFLINE. How can I set ? Any help would be appreciated? > ___ > openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Monitor RAIDZ disk failure

let me > know package name > oh, but this is openindiana list, not freebsd:) for freebsd, see zfsd(8). rgds, toomas > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 4:44 PM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss > <mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>> wrote: > > &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Loader failure: guard2

> On 1. Mar 2021, at 16:08, Stephan Althaus > wrote: > > Hello! > > I installed a new (used) graphics card into my OI system, > now i get a panic before the boot/loader menu is shown. > > consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > ... > BIOS drive J: is disk07 > BIOSD

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS problem

reboot when I took the machine down to remove the 5 > TB disk. This was after I had fixed the problem once already. Fortunately, I > immediately recognized what had happened. I still don't no why though. > > Reg > >> On Monday, February 22, 2021, 04:15:35 PM CST, Toomas S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] x86 boot loader

> On 20. Apr 2021, at 05:01, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > Is it actually written in forth? I just learned of it today. I'm a long > time forth fan. > the core is plain regular C, but the interpreter is forth (ficl) and so the UI is scripted. rgds, toomas

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing to a RAIDZ2 root pool How-To

> On 18. Apr 2021, at 17:16, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > It is my understanding that we can now boot from a RAIDZ pool. Are there > any known limitations? I looked at the wiki and I didn't see any > instructions related to booting from a RAIDZ pool or

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why networking not work?

Start sshd manually with debug switches and it will tell why. Sent from my iPhone > On 8. Apr 2021, at 13:57, Jason Long via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > Hello, > I installed OpenIndiana as a VM in the VirtualBox and use "NAT" and "Port > Forwarding" in the network setting. When I tried

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why networking not work?

Yes, check the path to sshd (ps -ef|grep sshd), svcadm disable ssh, then start sshd with -ddd or like... once you have the reason, enable ssh service again. Sent from my iPhone > On 8. Apr 2021, at 16:03, Jason Long wrote: > > How? On the OpenIndiana? > > > > > > > On Thursday, April

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

disks left after part of vdev should act as spare disks. >>> finally max 5 disks are coming ONLINE in vdev remaining disks going as says >>> OFFLINE state disk state is UNKNOWN. is there anyway to fix this issue. >>> >> >> >> If

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

hi! >From your screenshot, you do get 5 disks recognized (disk0 - disk4), that >means, those are disks you can use for booting. It *may* be the limit is >higher with UEFI boot. You can check the number of disks while booting from usb/cd, press esc to get out of boot menu, and enter: lsdev -v,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

te -o altroot=/mnt datapool raidz1 disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 raidz1 > disk5 disk6 disk7 disk8 > Still getting same zfs I/o error > > >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021, 15:56 Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss >> wrote: >> hi! >> >> From your screenshot, you do g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

> On 17. Feb 2021, at 20:49, Thebest videos wrote: > > NOTE: we are getting issues after shutdown , then remove ISO file from > virtualBox then power on the server. if we attach an ISO file we are safe > with our Zpool stuff. and we are creating boot,swap,root partitions on each > disks. vbox

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

fferent systems can set different limits there, for example, VMware Fusion does support booting from first 12 disks. It also can have more disks than 12, but only first 12 are visible for boot loader. Real hardware is vendor specific. rgds, toomas > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:24 AM

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

here is limit that virtualbox does only > see first 5 disk devices. This is vbox limit and there are only two options > about it - either accept it or to file feature request to virtualbox > developers. > > Different systems can set different limits there, for example, VMware Fusion

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

t; wrote: >>>> >>>> as per your reply, im not clear >>>> although i've tried to create 2 pools with 4 disks(for testing purpose) >>>> each pool in a single vdev as expected it works. but that is not our >>>> requirement since we intended

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

> On 5. Feb 2021, at 19:54, Chris wrote: > > On 2021-01-30 02:28, Toomas Soome wrote: >>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 10:39, Chris wrote: >>> On 2021-01-30 00:03, Toomas Soome wrote: >>>>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 09:40, Chris wrote: >>>>> On 202

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

> On 4. Feb 2021, at 17:40, Stephan Althaus > wrote: > > On 02/04/21 16:12, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Carl Brewer writes: >> >>> None that I can do to help, but can you continue to document what you do? >> I will try but make no bones about only being about half literate. >> English is not my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

> On 6. Feb 2021, at 01:44, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 15:40, Chris wrote: >>> Thanks for taking the time to reply, Toomas! :-) >> OK we have a winner! Thanks to some advice from Toomas: >> adding: console=text to /boot/conf.d/console >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

2021, at 10:39, Chris wrote: >>>>>> On 2021-01-30 00:03, Toomas Soome wrote: >>>>>>>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 09:40, Chris wrote: >>>>>>>> On 2021-01-29 22:24, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: >>>>>>&g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

> On 6. Feb 2021, at 08:54, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Gary Mills mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm>> writes: > >> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:06:12PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I've been running an hp xw8600 for several years and for about 5-6 of >>> those yrs running openindiana OS. >>> >>> A

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the equivalent packages on OI?

> On 7. Feb 2021, at 09:46, cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > They are Ubuntu packages: > > gcc libncurses5-dev libtinfo5 libffi-dev libgl1-mesa-dev > libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxpm-dev > > I searched for packages name using pkg search -rp but it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ~6 minutes to OI banner/boot options in text install

s Soome wrote: >>>>>>> On 5. Feb 2021, at 19:54, Chris wrote: >>>>>>> On 2021-01-30 02:28, Toomas Soome wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 30. Jan 2021, at 10:39, Chris wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 2021-01-30 00:03

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

> On 6. Feb 2021, at 11:16, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > > >> On 6. Feb 2021, at 08:54, Harry Putnam > <mailto:rea...@newsguy.com>> wrote: >> >> Gary Mills mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> >> <mailto:gary_m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] safely cleanup pkg cache?

> On 21. Feb 2021, at 08:45, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > > All- > > My space-constrained OI hipster build VM is running low on space. > > It looks like either pkg caching or pkg history is using quite a lot of > space: > > $ pfexec du -ks /var/pkg/* | sort -n > 0

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] safely cleanup pkg cache?

> On 21. Feb 2021, at 10:17, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > > Am 21.02.21 um 09:10 schrieb Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss: >> >>> On 21. Feb 2021, at 08:45, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> All- >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "format -e" segmentation fault attempting to label a 5 TB disk in Hipster 2017.10

> On 21. Feb 2021, at 22:50, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > WTF? > > I had loads of fun with this 4-5 years ago, but was able to put an EFI label > on a 3 TB disk and everything was fine when I moved the disk to my Solaris > 10 instance where I have two in a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing grub on a zfs mirror rpool

> On 21. Feb 2021, at 01:09, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > > > My HP Z400 based Solaris 10 u8 system had some sort of disk system fault. It > has a 100 GB 3 way mirror in s0 for rpool and the rest of each 2 TB disk in > s1 forming a RAIDZ1. > > After

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ issue

>>> shutdown and remove iso/img and start it again >>>> zpool import datapool >>>> mkdir /conf /storage >>>> mount -t zfs datapool/conf /conf >>>> mount -t zfs datapool/storage /storage >>>> >>&g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS problem

> On 22. Feb 2021, at 21:33, L. F. Elia via openindiana-discuss > wrote: > > I usually use 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 for dns. There are IPv6 options of those > for you who need them > lfe...@yahoo.com, Portsmouth VA, 23701 > Solaris/LINUX/Windows administration CISSP/Security consulting > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

> 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

> 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

> 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] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

> On 13. Aug 2021, at 12:07, Carl Brewer wrote: > > On 13/08/2021 6:59 pm, Peter Tribble wrote: >> >> As I recall, the keyboard prompt comes fairly late in the process - >> certainly after >> accessing the USB media to pull in /usr from it, so that would imply it's >> found the >> USB stick

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

> On 13. Aug 2021, at 11:13, Carl Brewer wrote: > > The furthest I got was to use the minimal install 20210430 USB image, it > booted, albeit slowly. > > I ran the boot in verbose mode, it got as far as prompting for the type of > keyboard, which I confirmed as US English (47). > > It

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on Intel B460M chipset intel i5-10400F

> On 13. Aug 2021, at 14:21, Carl Brewer wrote: > > > If it helps, here's a photo of the screen when it was looping > > http://aboc.net.au/oi_hang.png/image_view_fullscreen > > boot -rs, can it get to single user prompt? rgds, toomas ___

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Rpool uncorrectable error

> On 29. Aug 2021, at 14:31, Michelle wrote: > > I'm sat here, not knowing quite what I'm dealing with. > > OI recent build on HP N54L, as you may remember I hit a problem on the > 8th August with rpool encountering an error on the SSD with the OS. > > I replaced the drive and had the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] GUI performance

> On 4. Sep 2021, at 11:37, russell wrote: > > Hi > > I have been wondering about the time it takes the GUI Login screen to appear > on boot my computer and after logout to return to the GUI Login screen. > This morning I decided to time this and the timings are pretty consistent. > > So

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] resolved - sort of, now a reproduce-able bug was Re: A KVM switch broke my server?! Lightdm is panic'ing the kernel

> On 4. Sep 2021, at 10:15, Carl Brewer wrote: > > Ok, the trigger for the fault, reproduce able, is to boot the box without > anything plugged into the HDMI port on the GFX card. That seems to break > something in the BIOS, then the only way to get it to start X11 without a > kernel panic

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