On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:17 AM, John G Ireland <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Jim, > > Finally attempted to load Illumos. Your suggestions worked in part > 1. OpenIndiana Oct 15 download loaded using IDE but only in text mode > If I had to guess, making OI roll with AHCI on this laptop might be a simple matter of missing some aliases for the driver - I don't suppose you have a prtconf -v from inside either OI or Oracle Solaris? The lack of simple graphical mode working surprises me a bit more, but I haven't used OI in graphical install mode in a long time, so I don't have recent experience. > 2. Solaris 11.3 Beta loaded under AHCI using the VESA screen mode > > Neither will load under with the BIOS set to raid. > That part doesn't surprise me. I'm not aware of any support in Solarish things for Intel's "fakeraid", which is what that would be - such implementations are usually very minimal in terms of functionality. - Rich > > Thanks for your help. > > Yours sincerely > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: John G Ireland [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 09 March 2016 21:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86 > > Dear Jim, > > Will attempt again at the weekend - with a separate Hard Drive. > > Yours sincerely > John > John G Ireland > mobile: +44 (0) 771 206 9240 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Klimov [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 09 March 2016 17:24 > To: [email protected]; John G Ireland > Subject: RE: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86 > > 9 марта 2016 г. 11:58:48 CET, John G Ireland <[email protected]> > пишет: > > Dear Rich, > > > > This is a Clevo Laptop with a P170EM motherboard running an I7-3740QM > > processor @ 2.7GHz, 16GB ram with both an on board Intel HD Graphics > > 4000 and NVidia GEFORCE GTX 675MX. There are two 1TB drives set up > > as Raid 1 using the Intel Software and a 16GB Cache drive. The BIOS > > is American Megatrands version 4.6.5 and the Chipset is Ivy Bridge > > version 09 with Southbridge HM77 version 04 > > > > It is currently configured to run Windows 10 (which is a real pain > > requiring constant Cloud access). It loads and runs Linux but refuses > > to load either OpenIndiana or Solaris 11. > > > > Having used OpenSolaris in the past on a 32 bit x86 Toshiba any help > > to get OpenIndiana up and running would be appreciated > > > > Yours sincerely > > John > > John G Ireland > > mobile: +44 (0) 771 206 9240 > > > > From: Rich [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: 09 March 2016 02:42 > > To: Illumos Discussion > > Subject: Re: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86 > > > > What model of machine? > > > > A great many people have installed OpenIndiana in various flavors on > > various x64 hardware without issue, so this is probably of interest to > > someone if it's failing. > > > > - Rich > > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:25 AM, John G Ireland > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Any help please on how to install Indiana on a x64 machine WITHOUT > > using VirtualBox. > > > > The install routine fails during Phase2 without any discernible error > > messages – it just drop into the recover login > > > > Regards, > > John > > > > illumos-discuss | > > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > > Archives > > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/27762070-cf873a1f> > > | <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Modify Your Subscription > > > > <http://www.listbox.com> > > > > Possibly, the raid gets solaris confused (e.g. no driver, or moboraid > mirroring while solaris does see two disks as independent). Can you disable > the raid and expose disks natively, and mirror using the OS tools (zfs for > us, mdadm for linux, diskmgr for windows)? > > Jim > -- > Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Samsung Android > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
