Known problem. See illumos (openindiana) bugs with loader and Sun Ultra 27.
Boot from DVD, USB stick, go to prompt (3): set currdev=zfs:rpool/ROOT/openindiana: beadm list set currdev to your latest be as shown before e.g. set currdev=zfs:rpool/ROOT/openindiana-2024:08:12: boot -k And there you go. Toomas is aware of it he will look into once he may have the time. Cheers Iggi Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 12.08.2024 um 12:42 schrieb Udo Grabowski (IMK) <udo.grabow...@kit.edu>: > > 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 ? > -- > Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.of Meteorology & Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT > https://www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php > KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology https://www.kit.edu > Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026 > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
