[OpenIndiana-discuss] catching hell getting booted

[Toomas Soome]

> On 4. Feb 2021, at 17:40, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at Duedinghausen.eu> wrote:
> 
> 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!
> 

with USB stick, you can exclude “bad” stick by testing it with same host but different os image on it; if then the stick will wirk, it means, the partitioning is not OK.

About partitoning; we are using GPT on USB image, but with GPT, the possible issue is that the system may want to check backup label, if it is not present, it may consider whole label bad… Possible fix there is to write the image to stick and then use GPT aware partitioning tool to write label and therefore we will get backup label to the end of the media.

If that wont do, there is other option:)

rgds,
toomas