[OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

[Toomas Soome]

> On 24. Apr 2021, at 23:56, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the additional suggestions to get the CentOS-7 based
> OpenIndiana to boot.  Here is what I get:
> 
> 	boot: status
> 	disk device:
> 	    disk0:   BIOS driver C (167772160 X 512)
> 	      disk0s1: Solaris 2             79GB
> 		disk0s1a: root               79GB
> 		disk0s1i: root             8032KB


Why there are two root slices? it should not disturb us but still weird. anyhow, can you mail me full partition table, format -> verify or partition -> print.ole disk 

Since this is VM and no dual-boot, I recommend to only do whole disk setup (that is, GPT automatically prepared). But for now, I wonder how your current slices are defined:)

rgds,
toomas

> 
> 	illumos/x86 boot
> 	Default: /boot/loader
> 	boot: ?/
> 
> 	illumos/x86 boot
> 	Default: /boot/loader
> 
> I propose that we drop this one for now, unless someone has deeper
> insight into how to recover from this failed installation.
> 
> There is more information on the boot loader at
> 
> 	https://illumos.org/man/5/loader
> 
> but none of the few commands documented there worked for me.
> 
> Next week, I'll retry an OpenIndiana installation with the OVirt
> alternative on CentOS 7; I may also play with different disk types on
> virt-manager.  The disk is currently SATA, but IDE, SCSI, USB, and
> VirtIO are also possible (though USB isn't a candidate).
> 
> I can also report that the big package update (300+) that I ran today
> on the OpenIndiana system on Ubuntu 20.04 was problem free, and the
> system has been rebooted twice since, to make a virt-manager snapshot,
> as well as a ZFS snapshot.  On this system, as on our many other
> ZFS-based O/Ses, I have cron jobs that take daily snapshots, and the
> VM disk images themselves are backed-up nightly to LTO-8 tape, and to
> a remote datacenter.
> 
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