I posted a public plea to all the lists to contact me so I could test it. Never
heard from anyone.
On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 10:11:57 AM CST, Toomas Soome via
openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> On 4. Mar 2021, at 18:04, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> wrote:
>
> On 04.03.21 16:43, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> OK I just made several attempts:
>> First attempt was with 2020.10 GUI install ISO. That was forced to
>> maintenance mode and was unable to locate libpcidb.so.1 when I ran prtconf
>> -v.
>> Second attempt was with 2019.04 USB. That kernel panicked for multiuser and
>> single user. Even with a camera ready I couldn't get the message.
>> Both of those attempts had a 5 TB drive installed. I'm trying again with a
>> 750 GB drive which happens to have CentOS 7 installed. That tries to boot,
>> but doesn't seem to get far before it just spins. The GUI 2020.10 ISO
>> behaves the same as with the 5 TB disk.
>> It completely ignored the 2019.04 USB image even with it selected via F9.
>> The 20202.10 text ISO also fails for lack of libpcidb.so.1
>
> I can only second your opinion about the the quality of the ISOs, but
> two years ago I had some luck with 2018.10, which was the first after
> 151a9 that actually booted a newer system. Maybe you try that, it's
> sufficient for the job (if the rpool does not have activated the most
> recent feature flags…)
I think the next version should appear in may, so there is your chance to join
with release building team to make sure the next version is with expected
quality.
rgds,
toomas
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