[OpenIndiana-discuss] Spontaneous reboot before installation complete

[Jim Klimov]

2012-08-23 8:00, Willard Korfhage пишет:
> I'm trying to install OI 151a5 desktop on a SuperMicro X9SCL-F-O
> motherboard (C202 PCH chipset) with 12GB of ram and an Intel E3-1230
> CPU. I put the live image on a USB stick. I am installing the OS into a
> 30GB partition on a new 128GB Kingston SSDNow V200 SSD
>
> I can run the live image from the USB drive by selecting the VESA
> display option on the boot menu (with the top option, the machine is
> slow to the point of being almost frozen). I go through the installation
> process, and 28% through, while the status says "Transferring Contents,"
> the cursor freezes, and the machine reboots with garbage on the screen.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can get past this problem?


Try to monitor the /var/adm/messages output and the installer wizard
logs, if you find them ;)

Also check the integrity (md5sum, sha1sum) of your downloaded image
on the stick (i.e. dd the partition image from USB into a file,
checksum that file) - perhaps some critical blocks got damaged?

I posted some notes on manual installation - bypassing the wizard -
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+Manual+installation+of+OpenIndiana+from+LiveCD+media

See if this way of copying helps... though I wouldn't expect a box
to reboot due to (userland) errors in transfer of bulk files from
live media to the new rpool.

Ultimately, it is possible to have hardware errors (the SSD maybe -
check iostat -E or smartctl to see if there are any known media
errors), unsupported new chipsets, etc.

Possibly booting with the kernel debugger can help - at least
to the point that instead of rebooting the box would print a
panic message and you'd copy that to the list.

HTH,
//Jim