[OmniOS-discuss] Can't reinstall OmniOS on CF drive
illukas at inlink.ee
illukas at inlink.ee
Fri Mar 29 02:47:23 EDT 2013
I have similar problem installing into memory stick (tried 4 gb & 12gb)
Installer tries to create rpool/swap 732,606249809m, but fails with
error: volume size must be multiple of volume block size
Tried both stable & bloody
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/195/screenshotfrom201303281.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/221/screenshotfrom201303281.png/
Regards
illukas
On 28.03.2013 19:12, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
> Can you please try using Kayak? It's a much more flexible install tool.
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Kent Watsen <kent at watsen.net
> <mailto:kent at watsen.net>> wrote:
>
>
> I'm stumped. Here's everything I've tried so far:
>
> 1. installing into a partition instead of "whole disk". Works
> fine in VirtualBox but fails on the real disk
>
> 2. resetting the drive's geometry. Had to use Linux to do this,
> but OmniOS reverted it back to its original values
>
> 3. manually creating the rpool/swap volume. After the failure, I
> escape to shell. Sure enough, "3230.54765606m" fails but "3230m"
> succeeds (too bad I can't tell the installer to use this value
> instead)
>
> 4. traced the installer's code per the stack trace. Honestly, I
> wish instantiation.py wouldn't try to create swap at all - being a
> compact flash disk, I'm going to move swap (and dump, etc) to my
> raidz2-based pool afterwards anyways...
>
> 5. installed OpenIndiana. Yes, it installed fine. After it
> installed, I escaped to shell and saw it had chosen different
> sizes for the various ZFS volumes. Then I tried installing OmniOS
> again, hoping that something OI had done would stick, but no dice
>
> Why won't OmniOS install on this CF disk again? - I'm using the
> same OmniOS install CD as before. Could a BIOS setting make a
> difference (it's currently set to LBA)? The only other thing I
> can think of is that the CF disk now has some blocks marked
> unusable. But SMART info says that's not the case and I compared
> it to another identical 8GB CF disk and they're the same (two
> disks both marking the same number of blocks bad seems improbable)
>
> Right now, the only way I can imagine getting OmniOS installed is
> by hacking the installer itself. Actually, I tried already but
> file was read-only. Didn't investigate enough to see if I could
> change that. Worst case, I suppose I could mount the ISO, twiddle
> some bits, and burn another CD, but I'm hoping someone has a
> better idea...anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
>
>
>
> On 3/25/13 7:56 PM, Kent Watsen wrote:
>
>
> I have a machine whose root disk is a 8GB CF. I installed
> OmniOS on this drive a few weeks ago, but it won't let me do
> it again now (see install_log below). The one crazy thing I
> see is that it's trying to create a volume with a size of
> "3230.54765606m" - which seems like a peculiar fraction to be
> passing into `zfs create`
>
> How could it be that I could install 'stable' on this drive
> before and now, using the exact same OmniOS install CD, it
> won't let me? Any ideas how to clear or circumvent the issue?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
>
> 2013-03-25 16:16:56,393 InstallationLogger INFO **** START ****
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:100 TargetDiscovery completed.
> 2013-03-25 16:17:30,672 InstallationLogger INFO Going to
> perform final validation of desired target
> 2013-03-25 16:17:30,697 InstallationLogger.sysconfig INFO
> Opening keyboard device: /dev/kbd
> 2013-03-25 16:17:30,698 InstallationLogger.sysconfig INFO
> Detected following current keyboard layout: US-English
> 2013-03-25 16:17:30,698 InstallationLogger.sysconfig INFO
> console type: Physical Console
> 2013-03-25 16:17:40,684 InstallationLogger.sysconfig INFO
> Configuring NIC as: none
> 2013-03-25 12:17:00,022 InstallationLogger INFO Installation
> Device Size: 7.58gbMB
> 2013-03-25 12:17:00,022 InstallationLogger INFO Minimum
> required size: 2.12gb
> 2013-03-25 12:17:00,022 InstallationLogger INFO Recommended
> size: 4.12gb
> 2013-03-25 12:17:00,023 InstallationLogger INFO Swap type: ZVOL
> 2013-03-25 12:17:00,024 InstallationLogger INFO Swap size:
> 3.15gb
> 2013-03-25 12:17:00,024 InstallationLogger INFO Dump type: ZVOL
> 2013-03-25 12:17:00,024 InstallationLogger INFO Dump size:
> 807.00mb
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:100 PrepareTransfer completed.
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:1 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:1 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:1 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:2 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:2 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:2 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:3 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:3 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:3 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:4 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:4 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:4 Preparing for Installation
> PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:5 VarSharedDataset completed.
> 2013-03-25 12:17:07,955 InstallationLogger ERROR cannot
> create 'rpool/swap': volume size must be a multiple of volume
> block size
> 2013-03-25 12:17:07,956 InstallationLogger ERROR Error
> occurred during execution of 'TargetInitialization' checkpoint.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/engine/__init__.py",
> line 828, in _execute_checkpoints
> checkpoint.execute(dry_run)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/target/instantiation.py",
> line 410, in execute
> self.create_swap()
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/target/instantiation.py",
> line 205, in create_swap
> swap.create(self.dry_run)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/target/logical.py",
> line 723, in create
> logger=ILN, env={"LC_ALL": "C"})
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/__init__.py",
> line 331, in check_call
> raise CalledProcessError(popen.returncode, args, popen)
> CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/sbin/zfs', 'create', '-p',
> '-V', '3230.54765606m', 'rpool/swap']' returned unexpected
> exit status 1
> 2013-03-25 12:17:07,970 InstallationLogger ERROR Checkpoint
> TargetInitialization failed
> 2013-03-25 12:17:07,970 InstallationLogger ERROR Command
> '['/usr/sbin/zfs', 'create', '-p', '-V', '3230.54765606m',
> 'rpool/swap']' returned unexpected exit status 1
> 2013-03-25 12:17:08,213 InstallationLogger ERROR Install
> FAILED.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/text_install/ti_install.py",
> line 336, in perform_ti_install
> do_ti_install(install_data, screen, update_status_func)
> File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/text_install/ti_install.py",
> line 270, in do_ti_install
> raise ti_utils.InstallationError("Failed executing
> checkpoints")
> InstallationError: Failed executing checkpoints
> 2013-03-25 12:17:16,549 InstallationLogger INFO User quit
> the installer.
> 2013-03-25 12:17:16,549 InstallationLogger INFO **** END ****
>
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