[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP Z240

[Judah Richardson]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:10 AM Robert Pasken <rpasken at eas.slu.edu> wrote:

> I have an HP Z240 I'd like to install the curent Hipster on, however, I
> am having very little luck. The system is listed on the  community HCL
> in the "servers reported to work or certified with Solaris 11.x". When I
> start the install, the system reboots as soon as it tries to start X11.
> Using a vesa video driver brings the system up, but the install
> immediately drops a core as does gparted/parted. Running DDU shows that
> drivers for the Intel Sunrise Point C230 chip (SATA, USB3, thermal
> sensors) are missing.

No chipset drivers for my Dell OptiPlex 390 MT
<https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/blob/master/Dell%20OptiPlex%20390%20MT.md>
(full specs at link) either. Your symptoms sound familiar to the problems I
was having. Here's
<https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/wiki/How-to-Install-OpenIndiana> how I
got it up and running (twice, since I wound up having to clean reinstall
due to an SSD upgrade).

Hi from Quad Cities, IA BTW. Just up the road from you.

I do not find any reference to the Sunrise Point
> chip except a reference to the USB3 interface. The reference says that
> the driver for USB3 now works. The systems runs Linux/FreeBSD without
> problems.
>
> A Dell precision 3420 with the same chip set fails in exact the same way
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to how to get openindiana installed on this
> system
>
> --
> Illegitimi non carborundum
> RWP
>
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