[OpenIndiana-discuss] HCL - MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 (MS-7D25) motherboard

[Atiq Rahman]

Hi Théophile,
Awesome!

Guessing no trouble with NIC / LAN either on this board?

Cheers,

Atiq

On Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM theophile.dudreuilh--- via
openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Here’s a short report on installing OpenIndiana on a "MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4
> (MS-7D25)" motherboard with an Intel 13900K processor (+ NVIDIA Maxsun
> GEFORCE GT 710 graphics card).
> Since, as far as I know, this board isn’t referenced anywhere, maybe it
> could be added to docs.openindiana.org?
> MATE runs fine on it.
>
> The OpenIndiana 2023.05 Live DVD version allows you to boot directly into
> MATE and proceed with a graphical installation. (However, starting with
> newer OI releases, you have to manually install MATE from the MIN/TEXT
> version — it’s impossible to boot directly into MATE.)
> In the UEFI: enable CSM support and set the boot mode to Legacy+UEFI. Then
> boot your media (in my case a DVD) in Legacy mode, not UEFI (the GT 710
> won’t work otherwise). No other settings are required.
>
> Once installed and rebooted, I encountered several Segmentation Faults
> (core dumped) during the first major update.
> I simply re-ran pkg update several times, and eventually the updates
> completed successfully.
>
> On the other hand, installing VirtualBox afterwards literally broke the
> system, and I had to reinstall everything.
> Since then, it hasn’t happened again and VirtualBox now runs perfectly. I
> didn’t quite understand why...
>
> You’ll find the output of all the commands below in the attached file:
>
>
> Best regards,
> Théophile Dudreuilh
>