[OmniOS-discuss] omnios : r151014 : usb install media : installation failure ...

[Mayuresh Kathe]

actually, i am trying to install to bare metal, it's an hp-aio, one on
which the 151012 'lts' edition installs and works just fine.

i tried the vm (virtualbox) approach, but my system is so horribly
underpowered that it was painful to use it in that manner, hence trying
to install omnios native.

thanks,

~mayuresh

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 04:08:54PM -0400, Dan McDonald wrote:
> This is going to sound odd, but can you configure a floppy drive on your VM? I know this is an issue with VMWARE, and it may be similar in your situation.
> 
> Also, the INSTALLER doesn't like blkdev devices, so you may need to install on a virtual IDE drive and then clone it to a blkdev vioblk device.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
> 
> > On Sep 25, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in> wrote:
> > 
> > hello,
> > 
> > i got the latest omnios-r151014.usb-dd from the omniti website.
> > 
> > checksum is fine, so download probably not corrupt.
> > 
> > wrote the image to a brand-new usb pendrive using; "dd if=omnios-r151014.usb-dd of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 conv=sync" under ubuntu 15.04 (amd64) desktop.
> > the write went through successfully, and at the end of it, executed "sync" to be doubly sure that the operation succeeded.
> > 
> > when i tried the boot the system using that pendrive, the bootup went okay (hardware clock failure and lack of kvm support messages), but, at the point where the install scripts start, the whole thing just failed on me and put me into some kind of maintenance mode where it asked me to enter a username (which i gave as "root"), and a password where I just pressed the "enter" key.
> > it went a bit further and asked me to read up /lib/svc/share/README and that turned out to be not of much help to me due to inexperience with illumos based systems.
> > 
> > is there any way to work around this hurdle?
> > what may i have done or be doing wrong?
> > 
> > i have only one machine, and moving back and forth between the two systems is quite painful. :(
> > 
> > best regards,
> > 
> > ~mayuresh
> > 
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