OpenIndiana

Tried OpenIndiana over the last few days, well I tried too anyway, first attempt was using there “pkg” enabled upgrade process, but that didn’t work because somewhere along the like I fubar’d something(s) over the years, even went back to my initial boot environment and gave that a try it failed as well.

Next came the USB drive method, the write process seemed to go well, but when booted I got a simple message on the screen “GRUB” nothing else no chance to edit or change anything. No boot happened the box was hung.

So decided to give the Live DVD a try, it burned and booted as expected, but then the real test came, importing my zpools, well I typed pfexec zpool import, then the disk light came on and 2 seconds later the box crashed and rebooted. I tried all the grub choices but still no luck.

This is a pretty run of the meal beige box, asus m2a-vm amd x5200+ dual core cpu and 6GB of ram, it ran b134 and b144 fine no issues, b147 doesn’t like it, I do have a realtek sata -> pci board in it that I will try removing later and see if that is causing the issue but that is a project for another day.