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

[Mayuresh Kathe]

On 2015-09-28 05:43 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>> On Sep 25, 2015, at 11:11 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> 012 isn't LTS.  It's a stable release that's going to be EOSLed in a
> matter of weeks.

oh, okay.

> So '012 installs, but '014 doesn't?  That it prompted you for
> single-user mode suggests something really odd.  "svcs -xv" would be
> useful in that case (though it will be verbose).

thanks for this tip.
btw, i think there's something terribly wrong with my hardware, the 
hardware clock is malfunctioning and even ubuntu is issuing panics at 
times.

i guess it's time to go for a new machine.

> I'm not sure why the '014 installer didn't work, but if '012 DID
> install, you can follow the upgrade directions here:
> 
> 	http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/Upgrade_to_r151014
> 
> after a successful '012 installation.

ok, sure, will do.

thanks,

~mayuresh