[OpenIndiana-discuss] No boot from iso on HP xw8600

[Mark]

It could be that once booted, it didn't find the dvd drive again.


On 20/07/2014 5:35 p.m., Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup: Server and Desktop ISO, attempting to boot an HP xw8600
> A 2x Xeon (5470) with 32 GB ram and 2 1tb hdd.
>
> I've attempted booting an HP xw8600 from both server and desktop
> (freshly downloaded and burned) isos.
>
> In either case I come to one of those offers to drop me into maintenance
> mode and requests uid and passwd, or press Control + d.
>
> Pressing the `Control + d' option results in this message:
>    Requesting System maintenance mode
>    (see /lib/svc/share/README for more information)
>    Console login service[s] cannot run
>
> And back comes the offer to enter a uid and passwd or press Control + d
> for maintenance mode.
>
> Using the stock uid - passwd, root - openindiana, gets me into
> maintenance mode with these messages:
>
>    July 20 00:46:40 su, `su root' succeeded  for root on /dev/console
>    -bash /usr/sbin/quota - no such file or directory
>   openindiana (powered by illumos) SunOS 5.11 oi 151_a8 July 2013
>    -bash /bin/mail - no such file or directory
>    -bash /usr/bin/hostname - no such file or directory
>
>    root #
>
> If I run `ls -al' I see a listing of /root (.bashrc and .profile)
> followed by
>     /usr/bin/hostname - no such file or directory...
>
> Other basic commands seem to work, such as pwd etc.
>
> But trying something like `format' fails miserably with:
>   -bash - format command not found.
>   -bash - /usr/bin/hostname - no such file or directory.
>
> Where is the `format' command usually hiding.  /bin/, /usr/bin, /sbin,
> /usr/sbin, all seem to be present and accounted for... but no `format'.
>
> `format' is present at /usr/sbin/format on an oi vm I have running, but
> apparently is not included on this `Live CD' ISO.
>
> Is there something I can do here to help the boot. Or, is it likely to be
> something else causing the trouble?
>
> PS - both ISO's work fine when tried on another host and installing
> into a vm.  So at least any thoughts of corruption or the like should
> be laid to rest.
>
>
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