[OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic trying to install OI

2010-10-21 Thread Thorsten Heit
Hi, some time ago I tried to upgrade from OpenSolaris b134 to OpenIndiana, but rebooting into OI always resulted in a kernel panic; see http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2010-September/000504.html In another attempt today I booted the OI live USB image and tried installing O

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic trying to install OI

2010-10-22 Thread russell
Hi Thorsten, I found that I experienced a similar kernel panic when attempting to perform a clean install of OpenIndiana which would occur at around 2% of the installation on a consistent basis. I eventually worked out that I had to use GParted to delete any partitions on the boot disc prio

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic trying to install OI

2010-10-21 Thread gonczi
Edit your boot line which has console=graphic ( Sorry, I may be paraphrasing, I forget the exact wording) to disable graphic console, replace console=graphic with -kd ( I think, the intent is to load mdb "early" ) . You will have to delete the "splash image" line from the boot stanza as well.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic trying to install OI

2010-10-22 Thread Albert Lee
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:28 AM, russell wrote: >  Hi Thorsten, > > I found that I experienced a similar kernel panic when attempting to perform > a clean install of OpenIndiana which would occur at around 2% of the > installation on a consistent basis. > > I eventually worked out that I had to us