Hi Michelle
I don't know how happy you are going to get with a QNAP Hardware as base
for OI. QNAP is very exotic Hardware. It may be USB what they are using
in princiapl, but unless you are sure the Controllers are actually the
Controllers they are saying they are and the Storage is not a SD card in
Hiding, you are going to have a bad time. ZFS does not assume the
Storage to be uncorruptable, and thus far every SD-Card I found was so
terrible, that one meeting with ZFS showed just how much dataloss these
cards have.
QNAP and Synology usually use RAMDISK based approaches which run fully
in RAM and only use the Storage to boot.
SmartOS does the same, so this could work.
In my career and with friends I have seen many OS installation to USB
drives and SD-cards go horribly wrong. Those storage Options usually
don't survive for long and then the whole OS is gone. I've seen it with
FreeNAS(FreeBSD), Linux and illumos based Oses. I use Disks or SSD's as
Storage for the Pools. The Cable can be USB. But it needs to be a Disk
and not a flashdrive to at least Guarantee some use.
My Hardware recommendations for Cheap Home Servers for NAS on a budget
include HP Microservers Gen8 (Gen10 works too, but they spew warnings on
boot) SuperMicro Mini-ITX Boards. HP Workstations, or Workstations and
Gaming and Office Rigs in general and of course Dan McDonalds HDC3.0 [0]
-Till
[0] https://kebe.com/blog/?tag=HDC
On 30.04.21 17:19, Michelle wrote:
Good suggestions, but sadly didn't work.
Using option 2 single user also fails with the same errors.
I've also tried the USB interface in various booting modes,
unfortunately none of which work.
I took a look at the variables in the boot options, just for the sake
of it, and couldn't find anything obvious that would help
Michelle.
On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 20:00 +0000, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-
discuss wrote:
Try selecting the "reconfigure" option when you first boot the
installed image.
It is *supposed* to reconfigure, but I spent 50 hrs before I found
out how to get 2021.04.05 to boot after the install. I thought the
issue was the particular nVIDIA driver, but that was not the case.
I also got a fresh install of 2021.04.05 to boot properly by coming
up single user, "touch /reconfigure; init 6".
Good luck,
Reg
On Friday, April 30, 2021, 02:50:50 PM CDT, Michelle <
miche...@msknight.com> wrote:
OK, this is where things are going to get a bit awkward.
Scenario – QNAP NAS TS-251 decided to install their own Malware
Remover
which tells me it’s removed files, but doesn’t tell me which ones
it’s
removed, and I can’t kill the remover itself. If I Ssh in and remove
it, it simply re-installs itself. I'm not a fan of malware removers
that don't tell you what files they've removed.
So… the decision to rip it apart and install my own operating system.
After all, it’s on an American Megatrends bios.
The 2gig of RAM was replaced with 8, and the storage is a half gig
USB
flash module. So the flash module has to be replaced also.
I thus have a USB header unit and I’ve also tried to install Hipster
to
a flash drive connected via a USB harness, and also to a USB key
directly.
On install, I get an error…
openindiana drm: WARNING: [drm:pci_dev_create:93] ddi_prop_get_int()
failed
… which repeats three or four times during the installation.
After installation is finished, the installation OS goes down, but
says…
openindiana genunix:WARNING: xhci has no quiesce()
reboot: not all drivers have implemented quiesce(9E)
Please see veradm/messages for drivers that haven’t implemented
quiesce(9E)
Failed to process boot arguments from Boot Environment.
Falling back to regular reboot
Then on reboot, the boot comes up but gives…
WARNING: pci@0,0pci8086,f35@14/storage@3/disk@0,0 (sd0):
Commend failed to complete… Device is gone
Warning: Pool “rpool” has encountered an uncorrectable I/O failure
and
has been suspended; “zpool clear” will be required before the poor
can
be written to.
Warning: pci@0,0/pci8086/f35@14/storage@3 (scsa2usb0): Reinserted
device is accessible again.
Warning: Pool “rpool” has encountered an incorrectable I/O failure
and
has been suspended; “zpool clear” will be required before the poor
can
be written to.
...that last repeats three times and the unit sits there.
I did try searching for devices with no drivers, but the only thing
that came up were the two processor cores.
I did try creating a Solaris 2 partition and installing to a
partition
instead of the EFI whole disk option, but that failed on fdisk and
didn’t even install the files. I had to destroy the partition table
in
order to get back to getting the installation to work.
Also, in the installer, when I tried to go to a partition
installation
and pressed F5 to change the partition type, it would go back to the
installation menu again, so I’m presuming that it just doesn’t like
the
USB as a target.
I’ve got an ugly feeling that I’ve got no way of getting around
this.
Yes, I know I can put the SATA drives in and make a slice for rpool,
but where’s the fun in that?
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