[OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

[Stephan Althaus]

On 02/04/21 16:12, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> writes:
>
>> None that I can do to help, but can you continue to document what you do?
> I will try but make no bones about only being about half literate.
> English is not my first language... I learned to speak in Wyoming
> hill-billy for the first 10 or so years.  hehe.
>
>> I experienced something very similar, and ended up backing out to an
>> older OI build and doing pkg updates, instead of trying to install
>> more recent ISO's, they just would not install for me either.
> Interesting, and I thought I was the lone ranger and blamed myself for
> not getting it right.
>
> However, I haven't noticed much on the newsgroup about the
> problem... But I haven't been watching/reading full time either.
>
> I had not thought of your workaround...It should have passed through
> my pea brain at some point.  Do you happen to remember which old
> release you got to work?  That might be worth documenting as well.
>
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+1

If you have a spare old system, (before 2014, legacy-only)
you could try to install the current release 2020.10 text-install there,
and swap the target disk in to the HP.

Hope you get your HP online again soon!

Greetings,

Stephan