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Kayak (PXE-enabled network imaging of OmniOS)
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vioscsi(4D) driver not supported by the installation media despite being announced as available #289

Closed draga79 closed 3 months ago

draga79 commented 3 months ago

Hi, I've been trying to install OmniOS (both r151050 and Bloody) inside a Hetzner VM. It just doesn't detect the virtual disk as it's a virtio-scsi device.

I've performed the same test with a Netcup and Proxmox VM, and had the same problem. The only way to install it is changing to the virtio driver, which can be less efficient and/or impossible (Hetzner doesn't allow to change the driver).

This is strange, as it had been announced as available here: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/omnios-151048-stable-opensource-solaris-fork-unix.42093/

Thank you.

citrus-it commented 3 months ago

Thanks for the report. The driver was not actually in the installation miniroot which was a mistake. I have opened a pull request to correct this oversight at https://github.com/omniosorg/kayak/pull/288 and we'll get updated r50 media built.

citrus-it commented 3 months ago

Updated r151050e media are now available via https://omnios.org/download on the Swiss mirror (they will take another hour or so to make it to the US mirror). Please let us know if these work any better for you.

draga79 commented 3 months ago

Hi, that was fast! Thank you, I really appreciate it. I can confim it works on Proxmox with virtio-scsi controller. I'm going to test it on the other VMs.

draga79 commented 3 months ago

Ok, I've performed some other tests:

Everything's fine with Proxmox. Everything's fine with Netcup. It's not working with Hetzner VM. On Hetzner, I'm installing OmniOS by booting in rescue mode and, from there, using QEMU with a command line similar to this:

qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 2 -m 2048 -nic user -boot d -cdrom omnios.iso -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -drive file=/dev/sda,if=none,format=raw,discard=unmap,aio=native,cache=none,id=someid -device scsi-hd,drive=someid,bus=scsi0.0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -k en-us

It installs and runs perfectly (albeit slowly). But when rebooting the VM (so booting without QEMU), there's a boot loop. Enabling verbose boot, here's what happens (I've recorded a short video): https://youtu.be/F-yAiu6YXg4

It seems unable to detect and mount the root file system.

I'm keeping the VM running. Please let me know if I can be of any help.

Thank you.

draga79 commented 3 months ago

Update: I've asked Hetzner to provide the ISO and they did it. I've tried to install directly into the VPS, but the installer can't see the virtual disk. According to a Linux VPS, it should be a virtio-scsi.