<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wanted to ask for the last time if anyone got some tips on debug'ing the installation of OmniOS.</div><div class="">As stated of the emails before, I have tried -v and also -B immu-enable=true (as someone hinted me , <a href="http://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=488" class="">http://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=488</a> )</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have disabled pretty much anything in the bios and without any success.</div><div class="">Including every setting related to C states and :</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Disabled Processor C3</div><div class="">Disabled Processor C6</div><div class="">Disabled Intel Turbo Boots.</div><div class="">Disabled Enhanced SpeedStep</div><div class="">Disabled Hyper Treading</div><div class="">Disabled some cores.</div><div class="">Disabled Intel Virtualization</div><div class="">Disabled USB 2.0 Controller</div><div class="">Disabled the on board SATA chipset.</div><div class="">and many more.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_cstates_disabled_boot.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_cstates_disabled_boot.JPG</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_S5520SC_trouble1.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_S5520SC_trouble1.JPG</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_S5520SC_trouble2.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_S5520SC_trouble2.JPG</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_S5520SC_trouble3.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_S5520SC_trouble3.JPG</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_S5520SC_trouble4.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_S5520SC_trouble4.JPG</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have tried to boot the installation from USB stick. with or without usb 2.0 controller. NO SUCESS.</div><div class="">Also with SATA connected CDROM. NO SUCESS.</div><div class="">Also with OmniOS installation from Hard Disk, connected on the on-board controller in AHCI mode. NO SUCCESS.</div><div class="">OmniOS Installation from Hard Disk connected to a Supermicro AOC_USAS_L8i (which has the LSI SAS 1068E chipset). NO SUCCESS.</div><div class="">I also installed OmniOS on some hard disk in another Intel based machine with a AHCI based SATA controller. Success. Moved the disk</div><div class="">to this problematic machine, NO Success in boot. Freezes/Hangs at the same spot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, as -v parameter dosn't give my NONE information when the machine freezes I'm really asking for</div><div class="">the last time if there are any more parameters to debug/verbose this problem?</div><div class="">As I run some other OmniOS related servers and I would really like to continue that on this </div><div class="">machine. Would not prefer to run Solaris 11.3, as Solaris boots and install 100% fine. Also pretty much</div><div class="">every *BSD distribution.</div><div class="">I really would like to continue using this machine as a dedicated storage brick.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Svavar O</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">p.s. The motherboard is Intel S5520SC installed into a SuperMicro SC933 Chassis which includes a BPN-SATA-933 BACKPLANE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1. apr. 2016, at 10:18, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson <<a href="mailto:svavar@pipar-tbwa.is" class="">svavar@pipar-tbwa.is</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I installed OmniOS on another machine, with Intel cpu and SATA controllers in ACHI mode</div><div class="">from a USB Key. 100% success.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Moved the hard drive to the problematic machine and the same story continues.</div><div class="">It will boot up, but soon as the CPU initializing is done and USB controller is probed it will freeze and hang.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As the screenshot shows.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pretty much the same if I boot the installation from USB/SATA CDROM...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/IMG_0918.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/IMG_0918.JPG</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So it seems that I'm stuck with running Solaris 11.3...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Svavar</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""> <br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31. mar. 2016, at 11:16, Michael Rasmussen <<a href="mailto:mir@miras.org" class="">mir@miras.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Try to disable usb in bios before installing.<br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On March 31, 2016 11:59:20 AM GMT+02:00, "Svavar Örn Eysteinsson" <<a href="mailto:svavar@pipar-tbwa.is" class="">svavar@pipar-tbwa.is</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre class="k9mail">So, Solaris 11.3 boots up and installs fine but not OmniOS.<br class="">I sure would like to use OmniOS on this machine, so I ask are there any other debuging<br class="">options for me at the installation level ?<br class=""><br class="">Could I try to install OmniOS on a HDD/SSD on other machine with ACHI and boot it up on the problematic machine?<br class="">Or is that just a no-go from the start?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks again people.<br class=""><br class="">Svavar<br class="">Reykjavik - Iceland<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 14. mar. 2016, at 21:28, Christian Kivalo <<a href="mailto:ml+omnios-discuss@valo.at" class="">ml+omnios-discuss@valo.at</a>> wrote:<br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""> On 2016-03-09 11:00, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Dan.<br class=""> Thanks for the reply.<br class=""> I disabled all the C-states and it's the same story.<br class=""> If I boot from the SATA CD-ROM installation it hangs on boot right after :<br class=""> cpu7: Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU E5520 @ 2.27Ghz<br class=""> cpu6: Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU E5520 @ 2.27Ghz<br class=""> cpu7: initialization complete - online<br class=""> cpu6: initialization complete - online<br class=""> See here :<br class=""> <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_cstates_disabled_boot.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_cstates_disabled_boot.JPG</a><br class=""> If I boot from USB stick, with USB 2.0 enabled and or disabled the<br class=""> last message is always releated to usb stuff<br class=""> right after cpu6: initialization complete - online.<br class=""> So my BIOS configuration right now is :<br class=""> Intel QPI Frequency Select [Auto Max]<br class=""> Intel Turbo Boots Technology [Enabled]<br class=""> Enhanced Intel Speedstep Tech [Enabled]<br class=""> Processor C3 [Disabled]<br class=""> Processor C6 [Disabled]<br class=""> Intel Hyper-Threading Tech [Disabled]<br class=""> Core Multi-Processing [All]<br class=""> Execute Disable Bit [Disabled]<br class=""> Intel Virtualization Technology [Disasbled]<br class=""> Intel VT for Directed I/O [Disabled]<br class=""> and some more.<br class=""> My Bios Configuration can been seen here :<br class=""> <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_bios1.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_bios1.JPG</a><br class=""> <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_bios2.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_bios2.JPG</a><br class=""> <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_bios3.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_bios3.JPG</a><br class=""> <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_bios4.JPG" class="">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16134/omnios_intel_bios4.JPG</a><br class=""></blockquote> Maybe something for you there was a thread here some months ago...<br class=""> It starts here <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss%40lists.omniti.com/msg03194.html" class="">https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss%40lists.omniti.com/msg03194.html</a><br class=""> <br class=""> and some messages into the the thread X2APIC is mentioned<br class=""> <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss%40lists.omniti.com/msg03200.html" class="">https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss%40lists.omniti.com/msg03200.html</a><br class=""> <br class=""> <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss%40lists.omniti.com/msg03201.html" class="">https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss%40lists.omniti.com/msg03201.html</a><br class=""> <br class=""> and a link a blogpost by jeff sipek<br class=""> <a href="http://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=488" class="">http://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=488</a><br class=""> <br class=""> <br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Best regards,<br class=""> Svavar O<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 8. mar. 2016, at 15:13, Dan McDonald <<a href="mailto:danmcd@omniti.com" class="">danmcd@omniti.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mar 8, 2016, at 6:17 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson <<a href="mailto:svavar@pipar-tbwa.is" class="">svavar@pipar-tbwa.is</a>> wrote:<br class=""> Should I disable other CPU ? Should a enable C2, C3 state in BIOS or is that not relevant?<br class=""></blockquote> Disable C-states, that's general illumos advice (regardless of distro).<br class=""> Dan<br class=""></blockquote><hr class=""><br class=""> OmniOS-discuss mailing list<br class=""> <a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com" class="">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a><br class=""> <a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss" class="">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a><br class=""></blockquote> <br class=""> -- <br class=""> Christian Kivalo<br class=""><hr class=""><br class=""> OmniOS-discuss mailing list<br class=""> <a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com" class="">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a><br class=""> <a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss" class="">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class=""><hr class=""><br class="">OmniOS-discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com" class="">OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a><br class=""><a href="http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss" class="">http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss</a><br class=""></pre></blockquote></div><br class=""> -- <br class=""> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. 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