I've been running an hp xw8600 for several years and for about 5-6 of those yrs running openindiana OS.
A month ago or so I shutdown OI to change out a couple of disks. Once I did that I have not been able to use any of the oi installation media I've made up. Both usb stick and DVD fails to boot, No matter how I set the boot order. And even though those same stick media will boot my HP Z800 to live media for OI install. I've tried all I can think, changing usb ports, Trying ISO from CD. The xw8600 has two of those, I set the boot order to CDrom first but it goes right buy with out a response and tries to boot from disk. Finally I got really sick of not having my zfs machine and booted that dog with usb with ubuntu media which went off without a problem. Very discouraging. Now running ubuntu with zfs on root. Several times since I've tried newly made up usb sticks. And again any one of the three I've made will boot my HP Z800 with no problem. So the sob story kind of ends there... I'm out of ideas and running ubuntu with zfs on that host. I still want OI on it. So, I'm hoping someone here will have sage advice about booting from network somehow. Is there a way to circumvent both usb and DVD boots and do something over the network to get oi installed? _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss