Can you please try using Kayak? It's a much more flexible install tool. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Kent Watsen <<a href="mailto:kent@watsen.net" target="_blank">kent@watsen.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On 3/25/13 7:56 PM, Kent Watsen wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 **** _______________________________________________ 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> _______________________________________________ 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> </div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- Theo Schlossnagle <a href="http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle" target="_blank">http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle</a>