[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

[Judah Richardson]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 1:25 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>
> The HP BIOS is the screwiest one I've ever come across.

Can confirm via my HP ProBook. Dell's BIOSes are a lot better.

My first Z400 cost $1100, but several years ago I got 3x Z400's for a total
> of $300 delivered. They are all the older 4 DIMM machines w/ 2.67 GHz quad
> core W3520 processors, but you sure can't beat the price. Lately I've been
> eyeing a Z820. I can get one with 24 3 GHz cores, 512 GB of RAM and 20-30
> TB of RAIDZ3 for less than I paid for my Ultra 20 in 2006. The hardest part
> is finding a justification with the current state of the oil industry. So
> I'll need a new use case.
>
> I'm happy to report that by running FreeBSD sade(8) and putting a GPT
> label on the disk I can access the disk on OI 2020.10 again and all the
> vendor information has been restored. prtvtoc again provides the same
> output as before I nuked the label. Once I've studied the ZFS
> implementations in Linux, BSD, OS X, Solaris and Illumos/OI I plan to write
> a more sensible way to clean cruft off of disks than a blind "dd
> if=/dev/zero...". Whenever I do disk upgrades I put the old disks in
> caddies so I can test stuff such as I've been doing. Or try out the latest
> version of Plan 9 ;-)
>
> So I think it worth studying how they are getting the disk info and doing
> some work on format(1m) after all. I don't think the proliferation of
> redundant tools is useful. I'm much more inclined to fix old stuff than
> write new stuff. Though "fix" may well require writing a lot of new code.
> It's the person who has to use it that matters. My chief objection to
> Gnu/Linux is the perpetually changing syntax and semantics of things one
> rarely does. That is very dangerous if you have some ancient utility that
> attends to a complex but infrequent task which you got working long ago,
> but never quite got around to documenting properly.
>
> Have Fun!
> Reg
>      On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 12:46:11 PM CST, John D Groenveld <
> groenveld at acm.org> wrote:
>
>  In message <0679fa41-d544-7007-44fd-b00b3a5c9fd4 at kit.edu>, "Udo
> Grabowski (IMK)
> " writes:
> >since that mode is just slow. Get yourself into AHCI mode first,
> >along the guidelines Gary just posted (and that should've worked
> >out of the box, these HPE guys manage to break everything...).
>
> Does HP's BIOS prohibit booting from LSI HBAs?
> ISTR some HPQ evil in that regard.
> In my little corner of the world, Dell Precision workstations
> are available at salvage prices for home lab use, but in other
> corners I have seen well-speced HP Z workstations on thrift shop
> shelves.
>
> John
> groenveld at acm.org
>
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