[OpenIndiana-discuss] No GUI after upgrade yesterday

[Michal Nowak]

On Monday, March 4, 2019 at 11:12 AM, Marc Lobelle <marc.lobelle at uclouvain.be> wrote:
> 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).

With recent versions of OpenIndiana you may use KVM or VirtualBox. Unless you need HW pass-through, this might work you nicely.

> 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.

For both components the reason was the same. Our ports - Grub "legacy" and GNOME 2 - were EOL. Grub was replaced in illumos, and we just stick to the illumos default. MATE is a better replacement for GNOME 2 given our resources and given GNOME 3 is quite Linux-centric (well, because this is what it's developers use).

With rolling distribution like Hipster, one is best off running the latest bits. As MATE was introduced in snapshot 2016.10, upgrade paths tend to bit rot over time...

Michal

> 
> 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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