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

[Reginald Beardsley]

 Almost certainly easier and more useful to fix 2020.10. Might not solve the AHCI+RAID issue, but at least the ISO will be able to run all the executables available in single user mode.


     On Thursday, March 4, 2021, 10:12:17 AM CST, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabowski at kit.edu> wrote:  
 
 

On 04.03.21 17:04, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> On 04.03.21 16:43, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>   OK I just made several attempts:
>>
>> First attempt was with 2020.10 GUI install ISO. That was forced to 
>> maintenance mode and was unable to locate libpcidb.so.1 when I ran 
>> prtconf -v.
>>
>> Second attempt was with 2019.04 USB. That kernel panicked for 
>> multiuser and single user. Even with a camera ready I couldn't get the 
>> message.
>>
>> Both of those attempts had a 5 TB drive installed. I'm trying again 
>> with a 750 GB drive which happens to have CentOS 7 installed. That 
>> tries to boot, but doesn't seem to get far before it just spins. The 
>> GUI 2020.10 ISO behaves the same as with the 5 TB disk.
>>
>> It completely ignored the 2019.04 USB image even with it selected via 
>> F9. The 20202.10 text ISO also fails for lack of libpcidb.so.1
>>
> 
> I can only second your opinion about the the quality of the ISOs, but
> two years ago I had some luck with 2018.10, which was the first after
> 151a9 that actually booted a newer system. Maybe you try that, it's
> sufficient for the job (if the rpool does not have activated the most
> recent feature flags...)
> 

No, sorry, the ISO was 2018.04 (the system was then upgraded to 2018.10)


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