On 8/23/2012 5:05 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
2012-08-23 8:00, Willard Korfhage пишет:
I'm trying to install OI 151a5 desktop on a SuperMicro X9SCL-F-O
motherboard (C202 PCH chipset) with 12GB of ram and an Intel E3-1230
CPU. I put the live image on a USB stick. I am installing the OS into a
30GB partition on a new 128GB Kingston SSDNow V200 SSD
I can run the live image from the USB drive by selecting the VESA
display option on the boot menu (with the top option, the machine is
slow to the point of being almost frozen). I go through the installation
process, and 28% through, while the status says "Transferring Contents,"
the cursor freezes, and the machine reboots with garbage on the screen.
Any suggestions on how I can get past this problem?
Try to monitor the /var/adm/messages output and the installer wizard
logs, if you find them ;)
Also check the integrity (md5sum, sha1sum) of your downloaded image
on the stick (i.e. dd the partition image from USB into a file,
checksum that file) - perhaps some critical blocks got damaged?
I posted some notes on manual installation - bypassing the wizard -
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+Manual+installation+of+OpenIndiana+from+LiveCD+media
See if this way of copying helps... though I wouldn't expect a box
to reboot due to (userland) errors in transfer of bulk files from
live media to the new rpool.
Ultimately, it is possible to have hardware errors (the SSD maybe -
check iostat -E or smartctl to see if there are any known media
errors), unsupported new chipsets, etc.
Possibly booting with the kernel debugger can help - at least
to the point that instead of rebooting the box would print a
panic message and you'd copy that to the list.
HTH,
//Jim
For the record, the problem turned out to be memory incompatibility.
Nothing suspicious was in /var/adm/messages, and changing the disk
didn't help, so I suspected memory. I couldn't find a version of memtest
that would run on this motherboard, but swapping among the Super Talent
DRAM sticks yielded the same problematic behavior, so I changed brands,
and that worked. Super Talent W133EB4GM (4GB sticks) didn't work, but
Kingston KVR1333D3E9SK2/4G were fine.
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