Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disappearing files on FAT32 flash drive
It's time to invent a mirrored ZFS-based flash drive... Newest drive I have. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI install fails on dell R820
I have downloaded a driver from below and want to include it in a ISO - any idea how to include this and rebuild ISO ? http://blog.infrageeks.com/storage/software/mr_sas On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Ram Chander [mailto:ramqu...@gmail.com] I have 8 disks in Raid0 in Dell Poweredge R820. When tried to install latest OI (oi_151a), it fails with below error. Any pointers on how to install drivers and get OI installed ? No disks found. Additional drivers needed -Original Message- From: Ram Chander [mailto:ramqu...@gmail.com] It has Perc H710 card. Sounds very much like this thread: http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-December/thread.html (Search for this thread:) oi151a7 fails to see disks with dell perc h310 solarg ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Include driver and rebuild ISO
HI, I have downloaded OI ISO and want to include below driver and rebuild ISO. After extracting ISO, how do add this and rebuild ISO ? Any steps would be helpful. Thanks. http://blog.infrageeks.com/storage/software/mr_sas Regards, Ram ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disappearing files on FAT32 flash drive
On 2012-12-21 13:44, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: It's time to invent a mirrored ZFS-based flash drive... Make a single-disk pool on the flash and set copies=3? ;) Newest drive I have. It's not so much age that counts as the amount of use it has seen. It might take half a year or so of intensive rewrite use pattern to wear out the FAT region (as of one of my samples, on older smaller flashes - newer may use a finer tech process and be less robust). ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disappearing files on FAT32 flash drive
FWIW fsck wouldn't run on OI, but did on Sol 10 which reported a bunch of errors which were fixed. That left the situation that I can't delete the directories that the files disappeared from. If I cd into them ls says .: no such file or directory but an rmdir complains that the directory is not empty. The drive has seen very little use. --- On Fri, 12/21/12, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: From: Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disappearing files on FAT32 flash drive To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Date: Friday, December 21, 2012, 7:21 AM On 2012-12-21 13:44, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: It's time to invent a mirrored ZFS-based flash drive... Make a single-disk pool on the flash and set copies=3? ;) Newest drive I have. It's not so much age that counts as the amount of use it has seen. It might take half a year or so of intensive rewrite use pattern to wear out the FAT region (as of one of my samples, on older smaller flashes - newer may use a finer tech process and be less robust). ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Include driver and rebuild ISO
From: Ram Chander [mailto:ramqu...@gmail.com] I have downloaded OI ISO and want to include below driver and rebuild ISO. After extracting ISO, how do add this and rebuild ISO ? Any steps would be helpful. Thanks. You don't need to rebuild ISO. Here's what you do: Before you begin, see below, the command that says specific per-HBA The command I pasted is for a 3ware adapter (I can look up the model number if needed) and came from 9.5.4-Codeset-Complete.iso, and the specific command was posted on some discussion forum by a 3ware software developer, who said I'm the only person who knows this, and we were just instructed to stop developing for opensolaris, so we won't be developing new installers moving forward, and you're going to need this command to use the driver... You really best look inside the opensolaris installation package for your driver. They'll probably have a less manual way of installing it. But the notes below might be useful for you anyway - Even if the specifics are not useful to you, at least the general concept will be useful. So you can stop trying to figure out how to rebuild the ISO. ;-) Long story short: Boot from the live CD. In your live environment, install the driver. Then launch the OS installer. The driver should get automatically built into the boot loader for the OS, but if it doesn't, there's a command you can run in the live CD to force it. These are my notes for the systems that I did this on: Boot from the openindiana live CD. You're going to be glad you do this, so you can use copy/paste below. ;-) Open a terminal, sudo svcadm enable svc:/network/ssh:default Now, you can sftp or ssh into the machine username: jack password: jack Somehow, copy the tw file (which is the actual driver) to jack's home directory. If necessary, (for example, if driver is downloaded inside an iso file, such as was the case for my 3ware HBA) here is how to mount an ISO: sudo mkdir /mnt/cd sudo mount -F hsfs file.iso /mnt/cd Live CD environment, to get OS installed: Somehow, copy tw /kernel/drv/amd64/ sudo cp /mnt/cd/packages/drivers/opensolaris/amd64/tw /kernel/drv/amd64/ The following command is going to be specific per-HBA. sudo add_drv -m * 0666 root sys -i 'pci13c1,1003 pci13c1,1004 pci13c1,1005 pci13c1,1010' -c scsi tw Now you can install the OS. I don't know how critical the timing is for the commands below, but they need to be done after the filesystem is created, and before everything is closed. Or maybe they don't need to be done at all; I don't know. But I *do* know this is what I did, and it works, and it's repeatable. Timing may not be very critical, and these steps might actually be optional. When the installer gets to about 30% or so, do this: sudo cp /kernel/drv/amd64/tw /a/kernel/drv/amd64/ When it gets to around 75%, do this: sudo rm /a/var/run/AdDrEm.lck # (don't do this one) sudo add_drv -b /a -m * 0666 root sys -i 'pci13c1,1003 pci13c1,1004 pci13c1,1005 pci13c1,1010' -c scsi tw sudo bootadm update-archive -R /a You should be long since completed with the above commands, before the installer reaches 90% When the installer gives you the Reboot button... Reboot. Notice, it boots up but doesn't go through grub or anything. Shutdown, halt, or go to the Shutdown menu and un-select Skip boot menu on restart. Or use reboot -p This will force the system to completely reset, and go through BIOS, and grub. This should solidly confirm for you, that the system is able to load the necessary drivers during boot. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall
Thanks, I appreciate your help. I've just not so much time just now to check your suggestions. I might have a drained battery as the time was reset, I noticed. I'll get a new one. The MB is a GIGABYTE K8N ProSli and I haven't done more than disconnecting the disks during new install of b147 (just to make sure I didn't destroy anything). Let me check the battery and I'll be back after holidays. /Thommy M. On 20 December 2012 18:15, Jason Matthews ja...@broken.net wrote: Sent from Jasons' hand held On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:05 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: But he didn't change the hardware - in the OP he said he replaced one disk (the boot disk) and installed openindiana where he was previously running opensolaris. sure. he also didnt say that he didnt turn any knobs. perhaps the cmos battery is dead and settings were lost. maybe he didnt perceive the loss of accurate time to be a big deal. maybe he didnt know the clock was off or settings were lost because as you suggest he never went into the bios to check. when troubleshooting i prefer to start on step one, not step five. how about a little patience while we work through this? j. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Thommy M. Malmström Vipemöllevägen 109 224 66 Lund Home: +46 46 990 57 Mobile: +46 (0)73 802 7427 ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall
That isn't necessarily a driver. What model hba do you have? If it is among many versions of megaraid or similar, you won't see any disks until you create logical units from the raid card bios interface. On Dec 19, 2012 9:53 AM, Thommy M. Malmström thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I didn't read this thread till today - The first thing is, you *must* be able to see the disks via sudo format -e /dev/null If they're not there, reboot, make sure they're enabled in BIOS, and sudo devfsadm -Cv After that, they should be visible, or else you're missing a driver. I'm definitely missing a driver. Can't see the disks with format. Will test Solaris 11.1 now to see if it finds all my disks. Thanks for response. /Thommy M. ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Include driver and rebuild ISO
On 12/21/12 13:52, Ram Chander wrote: HI, I have downloaded OI ISO and want to include below driver and rebuild ISO. After extracting ISO, how do add this and rebuild ISO ? Any steps would be helpful. Thanks. http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-December/010878.html ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Disappearing files on FAT32 flash drive
FWIW fsck wouldn't run on OI, but did on Sol 10 which reported a bunch of errors which were fixed. That left the situation that I can't delete the directories that the files disappeared from. If I cd into them ls says .: no such file or directory but an rmdir complains that the directory is not empty. The drive has seen very little use. Have you tried the flash drive on a system with a different OS? FAT32 support under Solaris is not that good and chances are that the pcfs driver fails to operate well. A.S. -- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Ugly Failsafe OI session (xterm)
Why Solaris 11 and OpenIndiana Failsafe Session are so ugly ? Just a small xterm with ugly fonts, no twm launched, and a system.twmrc same as 25 years ago. If you broke Gnome, working with Failsafe to repair is not very funny. Here is a tar archive to install a smart Failsafe Session (called twm) with Xterm TrueType Fonts Smart colors and windows buttons the same as Gnome. To add twm-session just : - Download archive : http://ossi.pagesperso-orange.fr/twm-session.tar - As root do : cd / tar xf twm-session.tar Then logout Gnome and after username and before entering password select TWM and try. PS. Only 8 files are added. Files .twmrc and .Xressources are created in your HOME on first login. $ tar tf twm-session.tar usr/share/X11/twm/twm-session usr/share/X11/twm/user.twmrc usr/share/X11/twm/user.Xdefaults usr/share/xsessions/twm.desktop usr/include/X11/bitmaps/menu usr/include/X11/bitmaps/iconify usr/include/X11/bitmaps/maximize usr/include/X11/bitmaps/kill ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
