In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 20190511 gui/text boot fails on...:
All comments here are relative to 20191106…
Same for me.
What you could try is booting via UEFI mode and see if that works.
Good news and bad news.
All 3, minimal, text, and gui will boot from Virtual CD using UEFI.
However, after installing from each, none of the installations will boot
using UEFI (“No boot device available.” error). BUT, they will boot
after going back to BIOS mode.
I didn't go the extra mile like Jedi and try an install, but I can
confirm his results for booting the ISOs via UEFI, on multiple Dell
platforms.
The one new datapoint that I can add is that the USB image
OI-hipster-gui-20191106.usb will boot on every Dell platform I've tried,
in both BIOS and UEFI mode.
So, the failure, which is consistent, is the Live/GUI ISO (not USB),
in BIOS mode.
I even tried the Live/GUI ISO (OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso) on my
Dell Precision T3600 that has been running OI for 5+ years, and the
ISO won't boot via BIOS there either, while the USB
OI-hipster-gui-20191106.usb boots just fine in BIOS mode.
Since this happens consistently for OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso in BIOS
mode, and it previously happened consistently for both the -gui and -text
ISOs from 20190511, it seems like they may be exhausting some resource
(BIOS-addressable memory?) in BIOS mode that the other ISOs and all
the USB images do not.
This is from the gui failure booting from Virtual CD using BIOS mode.
fd devices:
fd0: BIOS drive A (2880 X 512):
fd1: BIOS drive B (2880 X 512):
cd devices:
cd0: BIOS drive H (348160 X 2048):
disk devices:
disk0: BIOS drive C (976773168 X 512):
disk0s1: Solaris 2
disk0s1a: root
disk0s1i: boot
disk1: BIOS drive D (1 X 512):
disk2: BIOS drive E (286749480 X 512):
disk3: BIOS drive F (976773168 X 512):
disk4: BIOS drive G (286749480 X 512):
zfs devices:
zfs:rpool
My virtual CD results on an R730 were similar, though I hadn't actually
installed OI on the system previously, so no slices or zfs devices showed:
ok lsdev
fd devices:
fd0: BIOS drive A (2880 X 512):
fd1: BIOS drive B (2880 X 512):
cd devices:
cd0: BIOS drive G (348160 X 2048):
disk devices:
disk0: BIOS drive C (585937500 X 512):
disk1: BIOS drive D (585937500 X 512):
disk2: BIOS drive E (1172123568 X 512):
disk3: BIOS drive F (1172123568 X 512):
ok
Tim
I am curious if loader is able to see the VirtualCD drive.
Greetings
Till
On 07.11.19 19:34, Jedi Tek'Unum wrote:
OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso works
OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso works! This is a change from 20190511. I went back
and tried 20190511 again and it still fails.
OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso fails as before with
loading CORE EXT words
loading SEARCH & SEARCH-EXT words
loading Johns-Hopkins locals
loading MARKER
loading ficl O-O extensions
loading ficl utility classes
loading ficl string classes
\
start not found
Type ‘?’ for a list of commands, ‘help’ for more detailed help.
ok
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