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

[Toomas Soome]

> On 23. Apr 2021, at 23:20, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at Duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 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

It does not. Because there is no text mode in UEFI.

rgds,
toomas