[OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel Panic installing openindiana on a HP BL460c G1

[Johan Guldmyr]

On 06/30/2011 09:22 AM, Michael Schuster wrote:
> with dd, use "bs=<bignumber>" to increase the block size dd reads and
> writes in one go - as you quote it, dd wrote 512 bytes at a time. A
> good value to start with would be 1048576 (1MB).
>
> Also, you may have "stopped" the command in an unintended way - Ctl-Z
> doesn't terminate a command, merely "freezes" it in its tracks
> (technically, pressing Ctrl-Z causes the shell to send SIGSTOP to the
> process); you could let it resume at a later time by using either "bg"
> (to have it continue in the background) or "fg" (... you get the idea
> ;-).
>
> HTH

Ooh, good to know, thanks Michael.

Did dd again with bs=10478576b count=50000
It completed with 250~ records in/out - and it didn't write all the 
blocks it expected to (about half, I didn't save the output).

Still panics though :(

http://img192.imageshack.us/i/oi148stack2.jpg/

::stack is now slightly different.

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Johan Guldmyr, Systems Specialist
Storage Platform,
CSC - IT Center for Science,