On 09/ 3/14 04:51 AM, Stan Gordon via illumos-discuss wrote:
I've tried just about every distribution I can find. Every attempt
quits at a message similar to this. I suspect the cpu is the cause:
"OpenIndiana Build oi_151a8 32-bit (illumos 7256a34efe)
SunOS Release 5.11 - Copyright 1983-2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms."
Do you know of any way to install on a system with this CPU?
I recently installed a8 on a tiny 32bit Compaq Deskpro EN to replace
Solaris 10 (which worked fine on the system). The system is used as a
console server (running conserver with a multi-port serial card). I also
took the opportunity to change the IDE disk to a mirrored pair of
Compactflash cards(which didn't work well on Solaris 10, but works
perfectly on Illumos).
There were two problems IIRC:
1) Illumos is picking upcompletely wrong number of CPUs from somewhere
(system is single CPU, but illumos thinks it's 32).
2) A spew of messages which continues forever and prevents any further
progress at boot:
APIC Error interrupt on CPU 0. Status 0 = 0, Status 1 = 4
Adding "-B boot-ncpus=1" to the kernel$ grub line fixed at least 1).
This can me made permanent with the command "eeprom boot-ncpus=1".
I think I had to disable something in the BIOS to fix 2, possibly the
APIC, but I don't have access to the BIOS to check that out right now.
The biggest problem is that although Solaris itself works fine in 512MB,
the pkg(1) command has a larger working set size than this, and any pkg
operations take hours whilst the system thrashes - I left them to run
overnight.
--
Andrew Gabriel
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