[OpenIndiana-discuss] Yikes, completely unexpected bootup problem

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Sat Oct 11 17:40:56 UTC 2014


John D Groenveld <jdg117 at elvis.arl.psu.edu> writes:

> In message <878ukmhi8b.fsf at reader.local.lan>, Harry Putnam writes:
>>The machine has no cdrom drive as I disconnected them in favor or more
>>hdd.  So, have not yet booted from a live cd or the like.  I can
>>either disconnect a non-boot drive and reconnect a cdrom dr or use an
>>USB. 
>
> Boot the LiveUSB image and then see if you can interrogate
> your disks.
> <URL:http://openindiana.org/download/#live>
>
> John
> groenveld at acm.org

Thanks for the input:

ken mays via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
writes:

> 1. Do a full power down (unplug power totally, wait about a minute, replug power)

[...] snipped a nice walkthru as troubleshooter for this problem

It appears your very first suggestion has effected the cure!!.

Thanks for the great input, and the nice series of pointers.





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