# [OmniOS-discuss] Can't reinstall OmniOS on CF drive

Theo Schlossnagle jesus at omniti.com
Thu Mar 28 13:12:17 EDT 2013

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    Can you please try using Kayak? It's a much more flexible install tool.

    On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Kent Watsen <kent at watsen.net> wrote:

    >
    > 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
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > On 3/25/13 7:56 PM, Kent Watsen wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> 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 ****
    >>
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