Facts: System will not boot from regular S10/8 image. Hangs just before "configuring devices"
S10/8 failsafe boots but can't see pools. S10/u8 installer shell can't see pools. I can't recall if I ran format(1m) to check if the disks were visible. OI_151a7 text installer shell sees pools and imports rpool w/ no errors. A scrub produces messages for each disk: "has a block alignment that is larger than the pool alignment" but no errors. prtvtoc reports 512 bytes/sector 252 sectors/track 255 tracks/cylinder 64260 sectors/cylinder 60799 cylinders 60797 accessible cylinders I labeled the disks using the OI_151a7 text installer shell which doesn't allow me to specify a starting sector, just a starting cylinder. echo ::sd_state | mdb -k reports blocksizes un_sys_blocksize = 0x200 un_tgt_blocksize = 0x200 un_phy_blocksize = 0x1000 zdb rpool | egrep ashift produces "zdb: can't open 'rpool': no such file or directory" The latter seems very strange given that I have imported the pool and can list the filesystem. Memtest reports the memory is fine. The system seemed to be working fine when I shut it down to install the 2nd DIMM. Access to the DIMM on the N40L is a real hassle and I'm doubtful that it's anything but coincidental. There is a bit of annoyance that the BIOS on the N40L keeps resetting the boot order in seemingly random fashion if I plug or unplug a USB DVD drive. The 4k sector business w/ S10/8 makes me nervous. I was a bit surprised it appeared to work. If I do a text install of OI_151a7, then mount the LiveCD .zlib filesystems, can I rsync the text installed image to be the LiveCD install image? It would help a lot if there was an explanation of how the installers worked rather than forcing the user to do a forensic analysis. This is really making me crazy. 12+ hours on something that should work but only almost does. I so wish that the text installer were included as an option for installing from the LiveCD. Thanks, Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
