[OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] OpenIndiana iso boot problem using GRUB2

[Peter Tribble]

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Ganapathy S A <gs.magesh at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​​Hello All,
>
> Booted the four illumos distributions (iso): SmartOS, OmniOSce, Tribblix,
> and OpenIndiana by following this SmartOS wiki
> <https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Booting+SmartOS+from+GRUB2>. All
> booted properly but OpenIndiana! I know this isn't the recommended way to
> boot but this seems very convenient, i.e., download the iso image, then
> boot either by burning it to CD/DVD or by using GRUB2 like most Linux
> distributions do! Please have a look at the boot message and the grub.cfg
> file below.
>

The fundamental difference here is that the ISO for
SmartOS/OmniOSce/Tribblix has a boot_archive
that is a complete instance of the OS, whereas OpenIndiana has a split-root
structure where it
subsequently mounts /usr from a file on the media.

If you want to boot OI this way then you need some way of fooling it into
finding the solaris.zlib file
where it's expecting it. It looks for physical USB or optical media, which
I'm guessing you're trying to
avoid. The other option might be to fool it into thinking it's doing a
network boot by adding something like
-B install_media=http://some.site/location/
where that URL contains the two .zlib files off the iso. But generally the
old Caiman boot/install
didn't have this kind of boot mechanism in mind when it was developed.

(Earlier versions of Tribblix and OmniOS also had the same split-off /usr,
but both have changed to a
single archive to make implementation easier and more flexible.)


>
> *OpenIndiana boot message: *
>
> SunOS Release 5.11 Version illumos-2727bb055f 64-bit
> Copyright (c) 1983, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights
> reserved.
> ERROR: failed to attach AMD IOMMU
> Hostname: openindiana
> Remounting root read/write
> Probing for device nodes ...
> Preparing live image for use
> Requesting System Maintenance Mode
> (See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)
> Console login service(s) cannot run
>
> Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): jack
> Enter jack password (control-d to bypass):
> Login incorrect or user jack not authorized
>
> Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass): root
> Enter root password (control-d to bypass):
> single-user privilege assigned to root on /dev/console.
> Entering System Maintenance Mode
>
> Nov 4 20:12:07 su: 'su root' succeeded for root on /dev/console
> ld.so.1: bash: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or
> directory
> ld.so.1: bash: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/bin/bash: symbol PC:
> referenced symbol not found
> Requesting System Maintenance Mode
> (See /lib/svc/share/README for more information.)
> Console login service(s) cannot run
>
> Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):
>
> */boot/grub/grub.cfg*
>
> set timeout=5
> set default=0
> set color_normal="white/black"
> set menu_color_normal="white/black"
> set menu_color_highlight="black/white"
>
> menuentry " SmartOS 201708 " {
>     loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)/smartos-20170831T155808Z.iso
>     multiboot (loop)/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
> /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix -B smartos=true
>     module (loop)/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
> /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive type=rootfs name=ramdisk
> }
>
> menuentry " OmniOS 201709 " {
>     loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)/omniosce-r151022s.iso
>     multiboot (loop)/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
> /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
>     module (loop)/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
> /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
> }
>
> menuentry " Tribblix 201709 " {
>     loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)/tribblix-0m20.1.iso
>     multiboot (loop)/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
> /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
>     module (loop)/platform/i86pc/boot_archive
> /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
> }
>
> menuentry " OpenIndiana 201710 " {
>     loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)/OI-hipster-gui-20171031.iso
>     multiboot (loop)/platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
> /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix
>     module (loop)/platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
> /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive
> }
>
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thanx.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ganapathy
> ​​
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