[OpenIndiana-discuss] loader doesn't load

[Toomas Soome]

Yep, it is known issue, https://www.illumos.org/issues/16412 and unfortunately to understand what is actually going on there, we would need to instrument loader to print out whatever debug information we would want to see and iterate build/install/test cycles on actual hardware… 

rgds,
toomas

> On 12. Aug 2024, at 13:41, Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabowski at kit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> hit a strange problem, trying to boot a really simple system (old
> Sun U27, pure BIOS, not that UEFI/GPT/CSM rubbish), ISO loads and runs
> without problems; but from the disk, the loader does not start at all,
> instead outputs one or two empty lines and stops with a blinking cursor.
> Only action accepted there is CTRL-ALT-DEL ... Partition is Solaris 2,
> Option whole disk.
> Tried different options, installboot -mfF ... etc., always the same
> stall. Loader prompt from iso boot gives me these details:
> 
> Active allocators 827/2502
> 41.910.272 reserved, 33.578.256 allocated
> heap base 0xcb726000, top at 0xcdf1e000, upper limit 0xcf726000,
> 4.111.408 fragments
> 
> lsdev
> cd0  bios drv E: 41723824 x 2048
> disk dev. disk0 Bios dev C: 1.000.215.216 x 512
>          disk0s1: Solaris 2
>          disk0s1a: root
>          disk0s1i: boot
> 
>          disk1 Bios dev D: (3.907.029.168 x 512)
>          disk1p1: illumos ZFS
>          disk1p9: reserved
>          (pulled disk1 to avoid confusion, no help)
> lszfs
>   zfs:rpool   (disk0)
>   zfs:Work_SL (disk1)
> 
> But beadm at loader level does not find anything !
> 
> What's wrong here ?
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