[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on USB flash drive

Fri Apr 30 21:20:48 UTC 2021

 I've started an install of 2021.04.05 to a 32 GB flash drive on a Z400. I'll see if that provides any information. I used the text installer from the GUI desktop, so it will be slow.

My 8 port KVM switch died so most of my systems were down. The replacement, a 4 port dual monitor KVM switch came today. Then I discovered that I also need Display Port to VGA adapters :-(

When I set up my NL40 it was not possible to boot from a RAIDZ, so the popular wisdom was to use a USB flash drive for the root pool. I didn't like that so I created a 100 GB rpool slice in s0 and the rest of the disk in s1.

After installing into the rpool, I created a 4 way mirror and a 4 disk RAIDZ2 array.

I recently rebuilt it using a single RAIDZ2 array to verify we could now boot from RAIDZ. It worked fine.

I'll post once the install finishes and I've had time to mess with it a bit. I assume you've checked that the BIOS will allow USB boot.

IIRC the Z400 would not boot from the USB Live Image. So I don't hold out a lot of hope, but it's not much effort for me to give it a try.

Reg

     On Friday, April 30, 2021, 03:20:15 PM CDT, Michelle <michelle at msknight.com> wrote:  

 Good suggestions, but sadly didn't work.

Using option 2 single user also fails with the same errors.

I've also tried the USB interface in various booting modes,
unfortunately none of which work.

I took a look at the variables in the boot options, just for the sake
of it, and couldn't find anything obvious that would help

Michelle.

On Fri, 2021-04-30 at 20:00 +0000, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-
discuss wrote:
>  Try selecting the "reconfigure" option when you first boot the
> installed image. 
> 
> It is *supposed* to reconfigure, but I spent 50 hrs before I found
> out how to get 2021.04.05 to boot after the install. I thought the
> issue was the particular nVIDIA driver, but that was not the case.
> 
> I also got a fresh install of 2021.04.05 to boot properly by coming
> up single user, "touch /reconfigure; init 6".
> 
> Good luck,
> Reg
> 
> 
>      On Friday, April 30, 2021, 02:50:50 PM CDT, Michelle <
> michelle at msknight.com> wrote:  
>  
>  OK, this is where things are going to get a bit awkward.
> 
> Scenario – QNAP NAS TS-251 decided to install their own Malware
> Remover
> which tells me it’s removed files, but doesn’t tell me which ones
> it’s
> removed, and I can’t kill the remover itself. If I Ssh in and remove
> it, it simply re-installs itself. I'm not a fan of malware removers
> that don't tell you what files they've removed.
> 
> So… the decision to rip it apart and install my own operating system.
> After all, it’s on an American Megatrends bios.
> 
> The 2gig of RAM was replaced with 8, and the storage is a half gig
> USB
> flash module. So the flash module has to be replaced also.
> 
> I thus have a USB header unit and I’ve also tried to install Hipster
> to
> a flash drive connected via a USB harness, and also to a USB key
> directly.
> 
> On install, I get an error…
> 
> openindiana drm: WARNING: [drm:pci_dev_create:93] ddi_prop_get_int()
> failed
> 
> … which repeats three or four times during the installation.
> 
> After installation is finished, the installation OS goes down, but
> says…
> 
> openindiana genunix:WARNING: xhci has no quiesce()
> reboot: not all drivers have implemented quiesce(9E)
> Please see veradm/messages for drivers that haven’t implemented
> quiesce(9E)
> Failed to process boot arguments from Boot Environment.
> Falling back to regular reboot
> 
> Then on reboot, the boot comes up but gives…
> 
> WARNING: pci at 0,0pci8086,f35 at 14/storage at 3/disk at 0,0 (sd0):
> Commend failed to complete… Device is gone
> Warning: Pool “rpool” has encountered an uncorrectable I/O failure
> and
> has been suspended; “zpool clear” will be required before the poor
> can
> be written to.
> Warning: pci at 0,0/pci8086/f35 at 14/storage at 3 (scsa2usb0): Reinserted
> device is accessible again.
> Warning: Pool “rpool” has encountered an incorrectable I/O failure
> and
> has been suspended; “zpool clear” will be required before the poor
> can
> be written to.
> 
> ...that last repeats three times and the unit sits there.
> 
> I did try searching for devices with no drivers, but the only thing
> that came up were the two processor cores. 
> 
> I did try creating a Solaris 2 partition and installing to a
> partition
> instead of the EFI whole disk option, but that failed on fdisk and
> didn’t even install the files. I had to destroy the partition table
> in
> order to get back to getting the installation to work.
> 
> Also, in the installer, when I tried to go to a partition
> installation
> and pressed F5 to change the partition type, it would go back to the
> installation menu again, so I’m presuming that it just doesn’t like
> the
> USB as a target.
> 
> I’ve got an ugly feeling that I’ve got no way of getting around
> this. 
> Yes, I know I can put the SATA drives in and make a slice for rpool,
> but where’s the fun in that?
> 
> 
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