`Can you please try using Kayak? It's a much more flexible install tool.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Kent Watsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kent@watsen.net" target="_blank">kent@watsen.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I'm stumped. Here's everything I've tried so far:<br>
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1. installing into a partition instead of "whole disk". Works fine in VirtualBox but fails on the real disk<br>
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2. resetting the drive's geometry. Had to use Linux to do this, but OmniOS reverted it back to its original values<br>
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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)<br>
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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...<br>
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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<br>
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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)<br>
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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?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Kent<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 3/25/13 7:56 PM, Kent Watsen wrote:<br>
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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`<br>
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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?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Kent<br>
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2013-03-25 16:16:56,393 InstallationLogger INFO **** START ****<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:100 TargetDiscovery completed.<br>
2013-03-25 16:17:30,672 InstallationLogger INFO Going to perform final validation of desired target<br>
2013-03-25 16:17:30,697 InstallationLogger.sysconfig INFO Opening keyboard device: /dev/kbd<br>
2013-03-25 16:17:30,698 InstallationLogger.sysconfig INFO Detected following current keyboard layout: US-English<br>
2013-03-25 16:17:30,698 InstallationLogger.sysconfig INFO console type: Physical Console<br>
2013-03-25 16:17:40,684 InstallationLogger.sysconfig INFO Configuring NIC as: none<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:00,022 InstallationLogger INFO Installation Device Size: 7.58gbMB<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:00,022 InstallationLogger INFO Minimum required size: 2.12gb<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:00,022 InstallationLogger INFO Recommended size: 4.12gb<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:00,023 InstallationLogger INFO Swap type: ZVOL<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:00,024 InstallationLogger INFO Swap size: 3.15gb<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:00,024 InstallationLogger INFO Dump type: ZVOL<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:00,024 InstallationLogger INFO Dump size: 807.00mb<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:100 PrepareTransfer completed.<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:0 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:1 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:1 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:1 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:2 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:2 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:2 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:3 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:3 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:3 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:4 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:4 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:4 Preparing for Installation<br>
PROGRESS REPORT: progress percent:5 VarSharedDataset completed.<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:07,955 InstallationLogger ERROR cannot create 'rpool/swap': volume size must be a multiple of volume block size<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:07,956 InstallationLogger ERROR Error occurred during execution of 'TargetInitialization' checkpoint.<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-<u></u>packages/solaris_install/<u></u>engine/__init__.py", line 828, in _execute_checkpoints<br>
checkpoint.execute(dry_run)<br>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-<u></u>packages/solaris_install/<u></u>target/instantiation.py", line 410, in execute<br>
self.create_swap()<br>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-<u></u>packages/solaris_install/<u></u>target/instantiation.py", line 205, in create_swap<br>
swap.create(self.dry_run)<br>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-<u></u>packages/solaris_install/<u></u>target/logical.py", line 723, in create<br>
logger=ILN, env={"LC_ALL": "C"})<br>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-<u></u>packages/solaris_install/__<u></u>init__.py", line 331, in check_call<br>
raise CalledProcessError(popen.<u></u>returncode, args, popen)<br>
CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/sbin/zfs', 'create', '-p', '-V', '3230.54765606m', 'rpool/swap']' returned unexpected exit status 1<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:07,970 InstallationLogger ERROR Checkpoint TargetInitialization failed<br>
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<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:08,213 InstallationLogger ERROR Install FAILED.<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-<u></u>packages/solaris_install/text_<u></u>install/ti_install.py", line 336, in perform_ti_install<br>
do_ti_install(install_data, screen, update_status_func)<br>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-<u></u>packages/solaris_install/text_<u></u>install/ti_install.py", line 270, in do_ti_install<br>
raise ti_utils.InstallationError("<u></u>Failed executing checkpoints")<br>
InstallationError: Failed executing checkpoints<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:16,549 InstallationLogger INFO User quit the installer.<br>
2013-03-25 12:17:16,549 InstallationLogger INFO **** END ****<br>
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