[OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

[Marc Lobelle]

Hi everybody,

Well Gary is the first, but he won't be the last. I planned to update my 
notebook from Solaris 11 to openindiana, and at the same time replacing 
the 480 GB SSD by a 1TB SSD (I have another notebook already running 
openindiana for a "long" time) and I need to be able to run Windows on 
these as well (not that I like it but there are programs that do not run 
on openindiana nor solaris).
I still do not understand why replacing grub and gnome, that did the job 
expected from them, by freebsd loader and mate, but OK, you do the job 
so you have the right to choose, but please explain how to switch to 
your new choices, and tell us what will change.

Thanks for the job of maintaining this distribution and best regards.

Marc

Le 04/03/19 10:17, Till Wegmüller a écrit :
> Hi Gary
>
> On 04.03.19 03:05, Gary Mills wrote:
>> Yes, that's my problem now.  I know I can make the partition bootable,
>> but I'd prefer to chain-load it somehow.  It used to work with GRUB.
>>
>>
> You are in fact the first person to ask this on the ML AFAIK.
>
> While I don't have a setup that works I also don't want to leave you
> researching everything from point 0.
>
> We switched to FreeBSD loader since the last time you upgraded. We
> follow Upstream quite tightly so anything that works on freebsd should
> work with OI.
>
> It seems that Freebsd loader can boot Windows but you will need to
> checkout what Configuration you can and need to set. You can find a list
> of all the configuration options under /boot/loader.help
>
> Alternatively you could testout UEFI setup. You should have an UEFI boot
> partition If you installed Windows First on the Device. Under boot we
> now have two efi binaries under /boot. "/boot/loader32.efi" and
> "/boot/loader64.efi" depending on how castrated your UEFI Motherboard
> setup screen is you should be able to just copy the one apropriate to
> your architecture to the EFI Partition and boot it from the BIOS Boot menu.
>
> AFAIK It is still quite Beta (meaning tsoome is working on it and I
> haven't gotten the chance to test it) but it should work If I
> interpreted his heads up mail on the ML correctly.
>
> Hope this helps you a bitt getting Dual-Boot Working.
> We are curious to see how you manage it as It is something I definetly
> would like to document.
>
> Greetings
> Till
>
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