[OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> responds today:

>> ...
>> > 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:)
>> 
>> ...

I booted the failing VM from the CD-ROM, ran "ssh-keygen -A", edited
/etc/ssh/sshd_config to change PermitRootLogin from no to yes, then
ran "/usr/lib/ssh/sshd &".  That let me login remotely from a terminal
window from which I can do cut-and-paste, and I could then do

	# zpool import -R /mnt rpoot

	# format
	Searching for disks...done

	AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
	       0. c4t0d0 <QEMU-HARDDISK-1.5.3 cyl 10440 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
		  /pci at 0,0/pci1af4,1100 at 6/disk at 0,0
	Specify disk (enter its number): 0

	electing c4t0d0
	[disk formatted]
	/dev/dsk/c4t0d0s0 is part of active ZFS pool rpool. Please see zpool(1M).

	FORMAT MENU:
		disk       - select a disk
		type       - select (define) a disk type
		partition  - select (define) a partition table
		current    - describe the current disk
		format     - format and analyze the disk
		fdisk      - run the fdisk program
		repair     - repair a defective sector
		label      - write label to the disk
		analyze    - surface analysis
		defect     - defect list management
		backup     - search for backup labels
		verify     - read and display labels
		save       - save new disk/partition definitions
		inquiry    - show vendor, product and revision
		volname    - set 8-character volume name
		!<cmd>     - execute <cmd>, then return
		quit
	format> verify
	Warning: Primary label on disk appears to be different from
	current label.

	Warning: Check the current partitioning and 'label' the disk or use the
		 'backup' command.

	Primary label contents:

	Volume name = <        >
	ascii name  = <DEFAULT cyl 10440 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
	pcyl        = 10442
	ncyl        = 10440
	acyl        =    2
	bcyl        =    0
	nhead       =  255
	nsect       =   63
	Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
	  0       root    wm       1 - 10439       79.97GB    (10439/0/0) 167702535
	  1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
	  2     backup    wu       0 - 10439       79.97GB    (10440/0/0) 167718600
	  3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
	  4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
	  5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
	  6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
	  7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
	  8       boot    wu       0 -     0        7.84MB    (1/0/0)         16065
	  9 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0

I have to leave soon for the weekend, so likely cannot respond before Monday.

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