[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hard shutdown now no boot

[jason matthews]

Another satisfied customer.

j.

On 8/10/15 12:14 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Lou Picciano <loupicciano at comcast.net> writes:
>
>> Harry,
>>
>> First, apologies. I should have provided you that explicit GRUB boot
>> line, then stuck with you! No matter, you're further along now...
>>
>> I'm gonna use the Occam's Razor approach, and bet that you've blasted
>> your SATA settings - and that fixing that will be your solution. AHCI
>> and SATA passthrough seemed to do the trick on one of our old
>> Gigabytes; again, settings and naming conventions will vary among
>> mobos. Important in our case was to disable all on-board RAID,
>> however; ZFS is giving us RAID, right?
> (And so it was...)
>
> Now my turn... I want to apologize to all posters for hemming and
> hawing and greenhorning it up.. trying every ones patience.
>
> Should have just changed the cmos battery first move instead of being
> so chicken (maybe next time.. hehe).
>
> I didn't really understand how easy that was to do... and how easy
> handling any resulting resetting of sata issues etc might be.
>
> Deep seated streak of chicken heart I guess.
>
> Now, let me thank you all very much for the rich and full amount of
> clues and advice you all offered.  A heck of a learning thing for me
> and much of it will be reduced to basic notes and kept on hand.
>
> And now to complete my query with a satisfied.... `IT WORKS':
>
> Finally changed the cmos battery, reset the time/date and after much
> memory prodding decided the bios had infact reset the sata emulation
> settings.
>
> I vaguely recalled something about a separate ide controller in
> original setup a couple of yrs back... so crossed my fingers and
> turned that on in bios Storage setup... and suddenly it all worked
> just like it always did.
>
> There really are only 3 possible settings;
>
> ,----
> | Aside
> |   RAID+AHCI
> |   Separate IDE controller
> |   Combined IDE controller
> |
> | The first is the one the machine had reverted to... and was failing.
> | I suspected `Separate' would be the one.... and turned out to be.
> |
> | For the record... `Combined' also fails in that it ends up ignoring
> | two major installed discs.
> `----
>
> So, trying them each in rotation is about the worst that could have
> happened... I guess.
>
>> Hint: Once you do arrive the solution, back up BIOS settings(!) Many
>> BIOSes now have an on-board facility for doing so, in addition to a
>> save-to-media option.
> And a mighty fine hint it is too... now followed!!
>
> Once again a hefty thanks to all posters for all the good advice and
> input.
>
>
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