Hi Théophile, Awesome! Guessing no trouble with NIC / LAN either on this board?
Cheers, Atiq On Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM theophile.dudreuilh--- via openindiana-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Here’s a short report on installing OpenIndiana on a "MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 > (MS-7D25)" motherboard with an Intel 13900K processor (+ NVIDIA Maxsun > GEFORCE GT 710 graphics card). > Since, as far as I know, this board isn’t referenced anywhere, maybe it > could be added to docs.openindiana.org? > MATE runs fine on it. > > The OpenIndiana 2023.05 Live DVD version allows you to boot directly into > MATE and proceed with a graphical installation. (However, starting with > newer OI releases, you have to manually install MATE from the MIN/TEXT > version — it’s impossible to boot directly into MATE.) > In the UEFI: enable CSM support and set the boot mode to Legacy+UEFI. Then > boot your media (in my case a DVD) in Legacy mode, not UEFI (the GT 710 > won’t work otherwise). No other settings are required. > > Once installed and rebooted, I encountered several Segmentation Faults > (core dumped) during the first major update. > I simply re-ran pkg update several times, and eventually the updates > completed successfully. > > On the other hand, installing VirtualBox afterwards literally broke the > system, and I had to reinstall everything. > Since then, it hasn’t happened again and VirtualBox now runs perfectly. I > didn’t quite understand why... > > You’ll find the output of all the commands below in the attached file: > > > Best regards, > Théophile Dudreuilh > ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T37a39e8259524da1-Ma6504763523b46b3e9008cf3 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
