This was after the install started (you chose the disks, hostname and timezone and then it broke after that?) Or were you unable to choose the disk on which to install? <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Sevan / Venture37 <<a href="mailto:venture37@gmail.com">venture37@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, I'm attempting to install OmniOS on my ThinkPad X61s but the installer fails at the disk detection stage. Below is what is the contents of /system/volatile/install_log after an unsuccessful install attempt. 2012-04-09 12:39:49,609 InstallationLogger INFO **** START **** PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:100 TargetDiscovery completed. 2012-04-09 12:39:51,938 InstallationLogger INFO -> [DataObjectCache] (<solaris_install.data_object.cache.DataObjectCache object at 0x19b4a90>) -> [persistent] (DataObjectCacheChild: persistent) -> [sysconfig] (<solaris_install.sysconfig.profile.ConfigProfile object at 0x1898510>) -> [discovered] (<solaris_install.target.Target object at 0x1b42b50>) -> [disk] (Disk: ctd=c2t0d1; volid=None; devpath=/pci@0,0/pci17aa,20ab@1a,7/storage@3/disk@0,1; devid=id1,sd@SZMVE_____Ext_Hard_Disk~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~; wwn=None; prop:dev_type=usb; prop:dev_vendor=ZMVE; prop:dev_size=149.05gb; is_cdrom=False; label=VTOC; whole_disk=False; write_cache=False; active ctd aliases=c2t0d1) -> [1] (Partition: name=1; action=preserve; part_type=11; size=149.05gb; start_sector=2; bootid=0; is_linux_swap=False) -> [disk] (Disk: ctd=c4t0d0; volid=None; devpath=/pci@0,0/pci17aa,20a7@1f,2/disk@0,0; devid=id1,sd@SATA_____OCZ-VERTEX2_____OCZ-; wwn=None; prop:dev_type=unknown; prop:dev_vendor=OCZ-VERTEX2; prop:dev_size=111.79gb; keyword: key=boot_disk; is_cdrom=False; label=VTOC; whole_disk=False; write_cache=False; passive ctd aliases=c4t0d0) -> [1] (Partition: name=1; action=preserve; part_type=7; size=100.00mb; start_sector=2048; bootid=0; is_linux_swap=False) -> [2] (Partition: name=2; action=preserve; part_type=7; size=39.90gb; start_sector=206848; bootid=0; is_linux_swap=False) -> [3] (Partition: name=3; action=preserve; part_type=165; size=40.00gb; start_sector=83886138; bootid=0; is_linux_swap=False) -> [4] (Partition: name=4; action=preserve; part_type=166; size=31.79gb; start_sector=167772160; bootid=0; is_linux_swap=False) -> [disk] (Disk: ctd=c3t0d134717440; volid=None; devpath=/pci@0,0/pci8086,2448@1e/pci17aa,20c8@0,2/blkdev@0; devid=None; wwn=None; prop:dev_size=968.00mb; is_cdrom=False; label=VTOC; whole_disk=False; write_cache=False; passive ctd aliases=c3t0d134717440) -> [1] (Partition: name=1; action=preserve; part_type=11; size=968.72mb; start_sector=63; bootid=0; is_linux_swap=False) -> [logical] (Logical: noswap=True; nodump=True) -> [Engine-DOC-Root-Node] (<solaris_install.engine.EngineData object at 0x1b47090>) -> [TargetDiscovery] (<solaris_install.engine.checkpoint_data.CheckpointRegistrationData object at 0x19b4c10>) -> [desired] (<solaris_install.target.Target object at 0x1b42c90>) -> [logical] (Logical: noswap=False; nodump=False) -> [rpool] (Zpool: name=rpool; action=create; is_root=True; vdev_list=[None]) -> [vdev] (Vdev: name=vdev; redundancy=none) -> [omnios] (BE: name=omnios; mountpoint=/a) -> [volatile] (DataObjectCacheChild: volatile) -> [apply_sysconfig_dict] (<solaris_install.data_object.data_dict.DataObjectDict object at 0x18984d0>) -> [transfer-ti-files] (<solaris_install.data_object.data_dict.DataObjectDict object at 0x1a53190>) 2012-04-09 12:39:51,938 InstallationLogger INFO Install Data: Install Completed - False Log Location - /system/volatile/install_log Log Final - /var/log/install/install_log No Install Mode - False 2012-04-09 12:39:51,939 InstallationLogger ERROR Install failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/text_install/__init__.py", line 420, in main screen = screen.show() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/terminalui/base_screen.py", line 149, in show self._show() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/solaris_install/text_install/disk_selection.py", line 347, in _show type_field = disk.disk_prop.dev_type[:len_type] TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable 2012-04-09 12:39:51,940 InstallationLogger INFO **** END **** Sevan _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com" target="_blank">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a> <a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- Theo Schlossnagle <a href="http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle" target="_blank">http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle</a>