[OpenIndiana-discuss] Successfull reboot of 2021.04-rc1 on Z840 w/ K5000 :-)

[Stephan Althaus]

On 04/23/21 09:42 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> It *appears* to be connected with selecting options 5, 6 & 7 before booting to multi-user.  I'll investigate further after it's been running a while.  I'm supposed have 64 GB of DRAM arrive today.
>
> I'm purely guessing, but I suspect that the "Reconfigure" option is what made it work.
>
> This install was to a 3 disk RAIDZ1, so I have to redo the install for a 4 disk RAIDZ2.  I'll test my "Reconfigure" hypothesis when I do that.
>
> There may be other wrinkles in the BIOS settings.  I cannot find BIOS documentation and this is my first encounter with a UEFI BIOS.  The behavior changed significantly when I updated the BIOS.  I'm hoping that applied a Spectre microcode patch.
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> Reg
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Hello!

2 hints:

To persistently enable the "reconfigure", create a file in the installed 
OI called @/boot/loader.conf.local@ and put @boot-args="-r"@ in there.
I have this because i like changing disks and whatever attached 
peripherals. As you will know a "devfsadm -C -c disk" will remove 
curently unused device names, so your inserted USB  device *may* get a 
C1... name after next boot...

You may like to persistently disable the graphical console, then create 
a file in the installed OI called @/boot/config@ and put @-t@ in there.
This is working for me in BIOS boot mode, BUT i don't know if this has 
an effect in UEFI boot mode..

Stephan