[OmniOS-discuss] Setup problems with newest OmniOS 151021 on ESXi 6.5

[Günther Alka]

It was the first time I tried bloody with the new loader
on ESXi to fix a Perl TTy incompatibility with napp-it

Gea


Am 14.04.2017 um 16:14 schrieb Dan McDonald:
>> On Apr 14, 2017, at 6:20 AM, Guenther Alka <alka at hfg-gmuend.de> wrote:
>>
>> I found a strange behaviour with the newest 151021 when I tried to setup on ESXi 6.5
>>
>> I created a new VM (Solaris 11-64)  with a DVD device connected to the OS .iso.
>> On first boot of the VM, the ESXi web console crashed completely with a required reload.
>>
>> After reload, the VM console shows a
>> - configuring devices
>> - ..requesting system maintenance, press ctrl-d to continue
>>
>> After ctrl-d I was able to select a bootdisk and install OmniOS
>> After setup, reboot work
>>
>> A power off/on and the ESXi webconsole crashes again (mostly, not always)
> Are you saying that older r151021s did not have this problem?
>
> I know Fusion has a "black screen" problem with Loader, GRUB, et. al, but that's new, and only with the combination of the latest Fusion and latest MacOS X.
>
> Dan
>