[oi-dev] gui-installer uses cXt0d0s0 for rpool

[Klaus Ziegler]

Hi Carsten,

I'm currently re-writing the text-installer for SPARC in SHELL without 
all that
Python and or C stuff.

Rgds
Klaus

On 7/7/25 18:19, Carsten Grzemba via oi-dev wrote:
> If the Live install media is used for installation of Openindiana, 
> there are tow choices for install:
> - text-install
> - gui-install
>
> It seems the gui-install uses always cXt0d0sY for creating rpool 
> instead of cXt0d0. Nowadays this do not deliver a bootable rpool.
>
> static int
> prepare_zfs_root_pool_attrs(nvlist_t **attrs, char *disk_name, uint8_t 
> slice_id)
> {
> ...
>     snprintf(zfs_device, sizeof (zfs_device), "%ss%d", disk_name, 
> slice_id)
> ...
> }
>
> Theoretically it is possible to create a Zpool in any slice and also 
> there in slice 0 of a prepartitionated disk.
> Make this still sense? I would propose to remove the statement for 
> adding the slice part.
>
> ... or the gui-installer at all?
> -- 
> Carsten
>
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