[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

[Mike Carroll]

I think POSIX systems work best. If you are using Windows, there should be an Oracle or OpenSolaris imager floating around that is massively out of date.
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From: david allan finch <david.allan at finch.org>
Sent: Monday, August 2, 2021 5:02 AM
To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb

I got chance to look at this again.
No of that seamed to work.
I found an old Windows boot USB and that boots, so it is not the usb
boot system.
I created a new USB drive with the latest OI and I still get the same issue.
May be I am using the Win32DiskImager wrong or there is an issue
creating the bootable USB drive.
Is anyone else attually doing this from Windows?


On 07/07/21 12:08 PM, david allan finch wrote:
> On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>> there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5).
>
> thanks
>
>>
>> in your case, the problem starts from the  fact that we do not get
>> information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed
>> without partitioning information.
>>
>> We would like to see something like:
>>
>> disk0:    BIOS drive C (….)
>>    disk0p1:  EFI        256MB
>>    disk0p2: ….
>>
>> and so on. I’m not really sure what did happen while usb image was
>> written to the stick, but something seems to be wrong there. Does
>> windows see any partitions there?
>
> I had put in an old disk that had been used as a raid for the boot
> drive. It was not formated. I found another and it now shows that as
> disk1 D with a two windows paritions.
>
> It must be booting, from the usb, as without the OI usb tumbdrive it
> says there is no bootable disk.
>
> As I seam to have something else coming up as disk0 C - there must be
> another M2 like drive which is has placed as C.
>
> I wonder if the USB boot assumes it is the second disk?
>
> So assuming that the M2 should be there only with the USB, I took out
> the phyical drive. It does the same. So that is not it.
>
> May be later I will try taking out the M2 as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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