[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Wiki page for adding a Windows GRUB entry

[Bryan N Iotti]

Hi Jim, Jean-Pierre,

I have reorganized the content of the page, using Jim's email as an introduction and moving my page and Jean-Pierre's email to child pages.

You can see the end result here:
http://wiki.openindiana.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26543005

Tell me if you like it or would rather do it differently.

	Bryan

On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:01:55 +0200
Jean-Pierre <jean-pierre.andre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
> 
> Jim Klimov wrote:
> > On 2013-08-30 22:07, Jean-Pierre wrote:
> >> Jim Klimov wrote:
> >>> On 2013-08-30 19:33, Jean-Pierre wrote:
> >>>> FIXME : The Windows wording for partition is volume and the OpenIndiana
> >>>> one is slice.
> >>>
> >>> I did not read it all (yet) but this here is a bit of misunderstanding
> >>> that I'd like to correct early on. Maybe just simplification for people
> >>> new to this all, but not correct still.
> >> [...]
> >>>
> >>> So, long story short, "The OpenIndiana wording for partition is slice"
> >>> is not a correct statement, and may mislead readers in the future :)
> >>
> >> I was aware of differences of concepts between the systems,
> >> and the need for some introductory precautions, so I
> >> marked the sentence as FIXME. You also raise an alarm on GPT
> >> partitions and LVM both of which should probably be excluded
> >> from the procedure (I have no personal experience about them).
> >>
> >> Maybe you can suggest an introduction, avoiding unnecessary
> >> details ?
> >
> > I am not really a good author (yet) on short meaningful texts,
> > as I try to detail everything so that even a newbie can speed
> > up to understanding the "how" and "why" of systems to administer.
> >
> > That said, I can try :)
> >
> > ---
> >
> > This article explains some approaches to multi-booting OpenIndiana
> > residing along with some other operating systems on the same hard
> > disk (or SSD). First, a few words about the limitations that you
> > should be aware of.
> >
> > OpenIndiana currently supports only booting from disks with legacy
> > MBR partitioning, which among other things limits the boot drives
> > to 2Tb and less. On many systems this is a moderate limitation,
> > because it is recommended to keep the OS (mirror) separately from
> > data/zone pool, frequently stored on a larger set of larger drives.
> >
> > UNCERTAIN: OpenIndiana requires(?) that its MBR partition is among
> > the "primary" four partitions (and if your set of operating systems
> > needs more partitions, at least for data volumes, you might require
> > to use one of these four to define an "extended" partition - a large
> > container spanning the "rest of the disk", usually after a contiguous
> > space divided among the remaining three primary partitions; note below
> > about tricks for systems with over 9 partitions).
> >
> > While OI lays out a "slice table" in its partition, and actually
> > uses one of these slices (the only one by default, covering most
> > of the partition) for the ZFS rpool, it is also picky in that a
> > drive should not contain several MBR partitions marked with Solaris
> > aka type 0x82 (the number is also used by default for Linux swap
> > partitions).
> >
> > OpenIndiana uses a special branch of GRUB with ZFS support and may
> > lack direct support of newer filesystem and volume layouts relevant
> > for other operating systems, though it can chainload Windows and can
> > directly load Linux kernel and initrd miniroot files from partitions
> > formatted as ext2/ext3 (however it can not, for example, interpret
> > partitions with Linux LVM - containers of volumes with filesystems
> > inside).
> >
> > Now that we've covered what you can not do, let's see what you *can*
> > do, and *how* you can do it....
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Then your and/or Bryan's article goes on to detail multi-booting...
> >
> > I don't want to hijack his page which as of now specifically regards
> > multiboot with Windows, and don't really have time available now to
> > combine and polish the texts; but if any of you guys feel like making
> > a page with consistent style and content on this matter - feel free
> > to use or adapt this exprompto introduction, if you like it ;)
> 
> Oh yes, nice job, I do like it.
> 
> I will try to check whether you can install OpenIndiana
> on a logical partition.
> 
> Jean-Pierre
> 
> >
> > HTH,
> > //Jim Klimov
> 
> 
> 
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Bryan N Iotti

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