On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:15 AM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> Categorically does *not* work on my 4 slot Z400. It kernel panics before > it reaches the single user milestone using the device specified in the > prtconf -v output from my system. With the"2822" device Gary specified the > boot fails. So it is not as simple as has been presented. > > BTW I've consistently been unable to login to single user mode on the GUI > disk. It does not accept jack/jack, root/root or root/<null>. Is there > something it *does* accept? In any case this should be fixed. It provides > no security at all. At milestone all "sudo /bin/su" provides full control. > > Whoever decided that the root password entered at install time should be > expired on first login should be hung by their thumbs. That is *very* > annoying. > Eh, it's part of the OS family's paradigm. OpenSolaris and therefore Illumos are designed to make it difficult for a single person to make catastrophic changes to the system. Of course, ideally one would not be installing the OS repeatedly in short succession ;) > > But not using all of a 5 TB disk in the GUI "full disk" install is simply > brain dead. If a new user sees that they are not going to be favorably > impressed. Even if the "new user" has the chops to fix it via the other, > "not the same as the other" text installer. > > Reg > On Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 07:59:09 AM CST, Gary Mills < > gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 08:40:51PM -0800, Joshua M. Clulow via > openindiana-discuss wrote: > > > > If ahci(7D) does indeed support this controller, and it's just that > > the association with the specific PCI ID is missing, that's incredibly > > easy to fix in illumos and then nobody needs to do the manual > > update_drv dance ever again. At present, it's just attaching to the > > AHCI 1.0 PCI device class, 01:06:01: > > > > > http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/pkg/manifests/driver-storage-ahci.mf?r=fd6d41c5#46-47 > > The only permanent change to OI on my Z400 is this addition to > /etc/driver_aliases: > > ahci "pci8086,2822.103c.1309.0" > > I've since done many OS upgrades to the system, but never needed > to make that change again. Mostly, I forgot that I had done it. > > > But if we need to bind it to more specific devices that do not > > advertise the class, it would just mean more aliases in the package > > manifest. It'd help to collect the data from prtconf and file a bug > > report to start with, and then making the actual change is not likely > > to be a great deal more work after that. > > > > It's always best to file and fix the underlying bug where we can, > > rather than propagate workarounds like this. > > I looked around for my notes on the first install of OI on my Z400, > but couldn't find anything. Maybe it was that easy that I didn't > bother making notes. I do recall that only needed to follow the first > part of the instructions. The main thing is the add_drv and rebuilding > the boot archive. There was only one BE, of course. > > > -- > -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss