I'm not doing a "devfsadm -C -c disks" when I'm swapping USB drives around, but I did do that recently and baffled myself for a few minutes and made some disks disappear before I laughed and fixed it.
I have a Z400 just for swapping disks around and testing stuff. It's a great use for old drives. I normally expect a new system configuration to take me 20-30 hours before I'm happy with it. After ~50 hours to get to the starting line I'm a bit beat. But at least I finally got there. I've asserted that I never lost a battle with a computer and that includes being made an admin in grad school for a MicroVAX II in a BA123 worldbox with no training and no formal support except for the HW and *very* little prior computer experience. I was feeling rather grim about the prospect of giving up and sending the Z840 back. Reg On Friday, April 23, 2021, 03:21:01 PM CDT, Stephan Althaus <stephan.alth...@duedinghausen.eu> wrote: On 04/23/21 09:42 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: > It *appears* to be connected with selecting options 5, 6 & 7 before booting > to multi-user. I'll investigate further after it's been running a while. > I'm supposed have 64 GB of DRAM arrive today. > > I'm purely guessing, but I suspect that the "Reconfigure" option is what made > it work. > > This install was to a 3 disk RAIDZ1, so I have to redo the install for a 4 > disk RAIDZ2. I'll test my "Reconfigure" hypothesis when I do that. > > There may be other wrinkles in the BIOS settings. I cannot find BIOS > documentation and this is my first encounter with a UEFI BIOS. The behavior > changed significantly when I updated the BIOS. I'm hoping that applied a > Spectre microcode patch. > > Reg > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss Hello! 2 hints: To persistently enable the "reconfigure", create a file in the installed OI called @/boot/loader.conf.local@ and put @boot-args="-r"@ in there. I have this because i like changing disks and whatever attached peripherals. As you will know a "devfsadm -C -c disk" will remove curently unused device names, so your inserted USB device *may* get a C1... name after next boot... You may like to persistently disable the graphical console, then create a file in the installed OI called @/boot/config@ and put @-t@ in there. This is working for me in BIOS boot mode, BUT i don't know if this has an effect in UEFI boot mode.. Stephan _______________________________________________ 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