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Subject: Re: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86
From: "Rich" <rercola () acm ! jhu ! edu>
Date: 2016-03-28 13:39:02
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:17 AM, John G Ireland <john_g.ireland@virgin.net>
wrote:
> Dear Jim,
>
> Finally attempted to load Illumos. Your suggestions worked in part
> 1. OpenIndiana Oct 15 download loaded using IDE but only in text mode
>
If I had to guess, making OI roll with AHCI on this laptop might be a
simple matter of missing some aliases for the driver - I don't suppose you
have a prtconf -v from inside either OI or Oracle Solaris?
The lack of simple graphical mode working surprises me a bit more, but I
haven't used OI in graphical install mode in a long time, so I don't have
recent experience.
> 2. Solaris 11.3 Beta loaded under AHCI using the VESA screen mode
>
> Neither will load under with the BIOS set to raid.
>
That part doesn't surprise me. I'm not aware of any support in Solarish
things for Intel's "fakeraid", which is what that would be - such
implementations are usually very minimal in terms of functionality.
- Rich
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Yours sincerely
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John G Ireland [mailto:john_g.ireland@virgin.net]
> Sent: 09 March 2016 21:11
> To: discuss@lists.illumos.org
> Subject: RE: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> Will attempt again at the weekend - with a separate Hard Drive.
>
> Yours sincerely
> John
> John G Ireland
> mobile: +44 (0) 771 206 9240
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Klimov [mailto:jimklimov@cos.ru]
> Sent: 09 March 2016 17:24
> To: discuss@lists.illumos.org; John G Ireland
> Subject: RE: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86
>
> 9 марта 2016 г. 11:58:48 CET, John G Ireland <john_g.ireland@virgin.net>
> пишет:
> > Dear Rich,
> >
> > This is a Clevo Laptop with a P170EM motherboard running an I7-3740QM
> > processor @ 2.7GHz, 16GB ram with both an on board Intel HD Graphics
> > 4000 and NVidia GEFORCE GTX 675MX. There are two 1TB drives set up
> > as Raid 1 using the Intel Software and a 16GB Cache drive. The BIOS
> > is American Megatrands version 4.6.5 and the Chipset is Ivy Bridge
> > version 09 with Southbridge HM77 version 04
> >
> > It is currently configured to run Windows 10 (which is a real pain
> > requiring constant Cloud access). It loads and runs Linux but refuses
> > to load either OpenIndiana or Solaris 11.
> >
> > Having used OpenSolaris in the past on a 32 bit x86 Toshiba any help
> > to get OpenIndiana up and running would be appreciated
> >
> > Yours sincerely
> > John
> > John G Ireland
> > mobile: +44 (0) 771 206 9240
> >
> > From: Rich [mailto:rercola@acm.jhu.edu]
> > Sent: 09 March 2016 02:42
> > To: Illumos Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86
> >
> > What model of machine?
> >
> > A great many people have installed OpenIndiana in various flavors on
> > various x64 hardware without issue, so this is probably of interest to
> > someone if it's failing.
> >
> > - Rich
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:25 AM, John G Ireland
> > <john_g.ireland@virgin.net> wrote:
> >
> > Any help please on how to install Indiana on a x64 machine WITHOUT
> > using VirtualBox.
> >
> > The install routine fails during Phase2 without any discernible error
> > messages – it just drop into the recover login
> >
> > Regards,
> > John
> >
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> Possibly, the raid gets solaris confused (e.g. no driver, or moboraid
> mirroring while solaris does see two disks as independent). Can you disable
> the raid and expose disks natively, and mirror using the OS tools (zfs for
> us, mdadm for linux, diskmgr for windows)?
>
> Jim
> --
> Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Samsung Android
>
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Mar 28, 2016 at 9:17 AM, John G Ireland <span dir="ltr"><<a \
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target="_blank">john_g.ireland@virgin.net</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote \
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solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Jim,<br /><br /> Finally attempted to load \
Illumos. Your suggestions worked in part<br /> 1. OpenIndiana Oct 15 download \
loaded using IDE but only in text mode<br /></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>If I \
had to guess, making OI roll with AHCI on this laptop might be a simple matter of \
missing some aliases for the driver - I don't suppose you have a prtconf -v from \
inside either OI or Oracle Solaris?</div><div><br /></div><div>The lack of simple \
graphical mode working surprises me a bit more, but I haven't used OI in \
graphical install mode in a long time, so I don't have recent \
experience.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 2. Solaris 11.3 Beta loaded under \
AHCI using the VESA screen mode<br /><br /> Neither will load under with the BIOS set \
to raid.<br /></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>That part doesn't surprise me. \
I'm not aware of any support in Solarish things for Intel's \
"fakeraid", which is what that would be - such implementations are usually \
very minimal in terms of functionality.</div><div><br /></div><div>- \
Rich</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 \
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br /> Thanks for your help.<br \
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From: John G Ireland [mailto:<a \
href="mailto:john_g.ireland@virgin.net">john_g.ireland@virgin.net</a>]<br \
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Sent: 09 March 2016 21:11<br />
To: <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.illumos.org">discuss@lists.illumos.org</a><br />
Subject: RE: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86<br /><br />
Dear Jim,<br /><br />
Will attempt again at the weekend - with a separate Hard Drive.<br /><br />
Yours sincerely<br />
John<br />
John G Ireland<br />
mobile: +44 (0) 771 206 9240<br /><br />
-----Original Message-----<br />
From: Jim Klimov [mailto:<a href="mailto:jimklimov@cos.ru">jimklimov@cos.ru</a>]<br \
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Sent: 09 March 2016 17:24<br />
To: <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.illumos.org">discuss@lists.illumos.org</a>; John G \
Ireland<br />
Subject: RE: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86<br /><br />
9 марта 2016 г. 11:58:48 CET, John G Ireland \
<<a href="mailto:john_g.ireland@virgin.net">john_g.ireland@virgin.net</a>> \
пишет:<br /> > Dear Rich,<br />
><br />
> This is a Clevo Laptop with a P170EM motherboard running an I7-3740QM<br />
> processor @ 2.7GHz, 16GB ram with both an on board Intel HD Graphics<br />
> 4000 and NVidia GEFORCE GTX 675MX. There are two 1TB drives set \
up<br /> > as Raid 1 using the Intel Software and a 16GB Cache drive. The \
BIOS<br /> > is American Megatrands version 4.6.5 and the Chipset is Ivy \
Bridge<br /> > version 09 with Southbridge HM77 version 04<br />
><br />
> It is currently configured to run Windows 10 (which is a real pain<br />
> requiring constant Cloud access). It loads and runs Linux but refuses<br \
/> > to load either OpenIndiana or Solaris 11.<br />
><br />
> Having used OpenSolaris in the past on a 32 bit x86 Toshiba any help<br />
> to get OpenIndiana up and running would be appreciated<br />
><br />
> Yours sincerely<br />
> John<br />
> John G Ireland<br />
> mobile: +44 (0) 771 206 9240<br />
><br />
> From: Rich [mailto:<a \
href="mailto:rercola@acm.jhu.edu">rercola@acm.jhu.edu</a>]<br /> > Sent: 09 March \
2016 02:42<br /> > To: Illumos Discussion<br />
> Subject: Re: [discuss] Unable to Install on a bare-metal X86<br />
><br />
> What model of machine?<br />
><br />
> A great many people have installed OpenIndiana in various flavors on<br />
> various x64 hardware without issue, so this is probably of interest to<br />
> someone if it's failing.<br />
><br />
> - Rich<br />
><br />
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:25 AM, John G Ireland<br />
> <<a href="mailto:john_g.ireland@virgin.net">john_g.ireland@virgin.net</a>> \
wrote:<br /> ><br />
> Any help please on how to install Indiana on a x64 machine WITHOUT<br />
> using VirtualBox.<br />
><br />
> The install routine fails during Phase2 without any discernible error<br />
> messages – it just drop into the recover login<br />
><br />
> Regards,<br />
> John<br />
><br />
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disks natively, and mirror using the OS tools (zfs for us, mdadm for linux, diskmgr \
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