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

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

Did you follow Gary's instructions ? It was already clear that the
simple procedure will not work with this crippled BIOS.

On 02.03.21 22:42, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>   Does *not* work on my Z400 machine. I reset the BIOS to "AHCI+RAID" and the 2020.10 GUI installer enters maintenance mode. prtconf -v won't even run.
> 
> With it set to "IDE" in the BIOS it reports "82801JI (ICH10 family) 4 port SATA IDE" and the same message but "2 port".
> 
> "RAID" never appears in the prtconf -v output. I'm running BIOS 3.19, though I do have a couple of machines with an older BIOS (3.07??) installed. Those are all 4 DIM slot machines. My newer 6 slot machine is far too precious to fool with. The 4 DIMM machines have Vista stickers. The 6 DIMM came with Win 7 Pro.
> 
>   I really don't think it's an issue. The numbers below are for a 3 disk RAIDZ1 pool with a quad core 2.67 GHz Xeon W3520 with 8 GB of RAM. Realistically it's not going to be able to crunch data fast enough for the disk transfer rate to matter.
> 
> sun_x86%rhb {126} /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero bs=65536 count=65536 of=zero.tst
> 65536+0 records in
> 65536+0 records out
> 4294967296 bytes transferred in 46.334185 secs (92695432 bytes/sec)
> 
> real 46.3
> user 0.1
> sys 4.8
> sun_x86%rhb {127}
> sun_x86%rhb {127} rm zero.tst
> sun_x86%rhb {128} /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero bs=65536 count=1048576 of=zero.tst
> 1048576+0 records in
> 1048576+0 records out
> 68719476736 bytes transferred in 1086.415813 secs (63253384 bytes/sec)
> 
> real 18:06.4
> user 2.2
> sys 1:17.0
> sun_x86%rhb {129}
> 
> Have Fun!
> Reg
> 
> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 10:49:05 AM CST, Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> ACHI+RAID does work with Solaris and OI, but you have to do some
> preparation first. I know because I have done that with my Z400
> and installed OI on it. The instructions are here:
> 
>   https://superuser.com/questions/635829/how-do-i-install-solaris-on-a-fake-raid-a-k-a-ahciraid-sata-sas-controller/635830#635830
> 
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