[OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

[Toomas Soome]

> On 3. Feb 2021, at 20:06, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been running an hp xw8600 for several years and for about 5-6 of
> those yrs running openindiana OS.
> 
> A month ago or so I shutdown OI to change out a couple of disks.
> 
> Once I did that I have not been able to use any of the oi installation
> media I've made up.  Both usb stick and DVD fails to boot,  No matter
> how I set the boot order. And even though those  same stick media will
> boot my HP Z800 to live media for OI install.
> 
> I've tried all I can think, changing usb ports,  Trying ISO from CD.
> The xw8600 has two of those,  I set the boot order to CDrom first but it
> goes right buy with out a response and tries to boot from disk.
> 
> Finally I got really sick of not having my zfs machine and booted that
> dog with usb with ubuntu media which went off without a problem.
> 
> Very discouraging.  Now running ubuntu with zfs on root.
> Several times since I've tried newly made up usb sticks.  And again
> any one of the three I've made will boot my HP Z800 with no problem.
> 
> So the sob story kind of ends there...
> 
> I'm out of ideas and running ubuntu with zfs on that host.  I still
> want OI on it.
> 
> So, I'm hoping someone here will have sage advice about booting from
> network somehow.
> 
> Is there a way to circumvent both usb and DVD boots and do something
> over the network to get oi installed?
> 

What exactly is happening? do you have any logs, screenshots etc?

rgds,
toomas