I am not familiar with your hardware. One suggestion is to check your BIOS settings to see if there is firmware protection against unattended booting or reset.
(I have an old dual CPU hardware network server stored in my attic that has a physical switch on an internal card intended to help protect the server from attack so it stays up and running.) -- John On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Oscar del Rio <[email protected]> wrote: > Trying to install Illumos on a Dell PowerEdge R805, with dual 6-core AMD > Opteron 2435, 32 GB RAM, 2x1TB HDD. > > Using the latest installers for Openindiana-Hipster or OmniOS-CE (DVD or > USB media), the boot menu screen loads fine, with the countdown "Autoboot > in 10 sec...". > When the countdown ends, it looks like Illumos is loading > > Loading unix... > Loading /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive... > Loading /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive.hash... > > then the system reboots to the BIOS in a loop. > > If during the "Autoboot in # sec..." I press Enter or 1 for "Boot > Multi-User", then illumos starts normally and the installation is > successful. > > But then, the same issue occurs when booting/rebooting from the hard > drives (Hipster or OmniOS). After the autoboot countdown, the system > reboots to BIOS in a loop. If "Enter" is pressed during the countdown, > Illumos boots correctly. > > The same installer media works fine on other systems. The problem seems to > be only on the PowerEdge R805. > > I also tested with FreeBSD, which uses a similar boot loader, but with > FreeBSD the system always boots correctly. > > Any idea what's happening? > > Thanks, > Oscar ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T6e93dd2e480d57c2-Mb125ef83106badd7ed626ae7 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups
