[OpenIndiana-discuss] Intel D510MO - do not flash the bios to 5XX GRUB will freeze

[Matt Connolly]

I have this mobo with a later bios. I got stuck by a combination of ahci and USB legacy enable. I'm away from the machine for the weekend, when I'm back, I'll dig up my setting for you. 

Matt. 


On 04/06/2011, at 1:56, Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com> wrote:

> So, I wasn't sure for a few days why OI wouldn't boot, and I thought
> perhaps something corrupted grub, or I would have posted this earlier.
> 
> I tried all the solaris distros including oi151, oi148, sol 11 express,
> sol 10, Schillix, Belenix, Milax, even the old osol134.  No luck.  They
> all hang in grub with "Loading Stage 2....."
> Tried to boot off USB thumb drives too, same thing on the internal SATA
> hard drives as well.
> 
> If you have this motherboard do not upgrade the BIOS to 5xx.  I'm not
> sure exactly what version broke it.  I'm only able to downgrade it to
> 501 from 516.
> 
> I tried to use the ISO image as pressing F7 fails to go back a major
> version to 400 or 3xx, and this too fails to boot - dies with an opcode
> violation before FreeDOS finishes booting.  This is off a USB DVD-RW
> drive, so maybe I'll take out one of the internal drives and hook up the
> DVD-RW that way and try again, or maybe I'll be able to boot off
> whatever the latest FreeDOS image is and try to downgrade the BIOS that
> way...
> 
> I've not tried to mess with the BSDs, nor tried to compile ZFS for linux
> and make a live CD out of that.  I probably won't as I'd rather have a
> solaris derivate.
> 
> 
> On the upside, patching did fix one of my D510MO machines that couldn't
> boot newer versions Linux, since I wanted to upgrade mythbuntu on it,
> but unfortunately, all I can boot is Linux on both ATOM machines now.
> 
> Any thoughts on what the difference between the versions of grub used by
> solaris derrivates and linux might be (beyond ZFS)?
> 
> 
> newegg had a nice combo deal for $230 today for a core 2/mobo/4G
> ram/hd/case, so that's on the way, and it's got 2 PCI + 1 PCIe.  From
> what I see the onboard ethernet will likely not work, but this one has 4
> onboard SATA slots, and two PCI slots, plus a PCIe slot, so there's
> plenty of room to grow.  Someone reported the board will actually accept
> 8GB of RAM, so I might try that later on as well and see if it works. 
> It's not a high end box, but it'll do for a NAS. 
> 
> 
> I'll see if I can find a nice quad gigabit intel card to put in there
> and speed up access a bit.  How's multipathing in OI?
> 
> 
> The Atom board was very nice in terms of power consumption.  The new box
> has a 480W PS, it'll probably use less than that, but, would have been
> nice to save some watts.
> I wish someone would make ATOM boards for use as NAS servers.  Something
> with 16 SATA plugs and quad gigabit ethernet and lots of RAM would have
> been really nice.
> 
> 
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