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

[Judah Richardson]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 2:43 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> It *appears* to be connected with selecting options 5, 6 & 7 before
> booting to multi-user.

I do believe this was in 1 of the very 1st replies I made to you when you
1st posted on this list ... it was either in the body or the link I posted.
That has always been the key to getting an OI installation to boot for the
1st time on this end.

Glad you got it working; I just feel like you could have a lot sooner ;)

  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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