[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

[Judah Richardson]

About to eat so firing this reply off quickly:

OI has an oddity in which the live USB supports GPT and UEFI boot (on the
USB media itself) but the actual OS installation and boot is entirely
legacy (MBR, at least by default).

Yes, I know that doesn't make sense. There's some *semantic* (read: not
practical. In the context IMO the answer relative to other current
generation OSes is "No") debate about whether OI supports UEFI (see the
mailing list archives within the past 6 months) but I do believe an
accurate assessment is the above sentence. Hopefully that helps.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 7:15 PM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> Following hints from others, I used a *working* copy of gparted to put a
> GPT label on a 5 TB disk in advance of attempting to install OI.
>
> I took photos of the screen should anyone question this, but I don't see a
> reason to post them lest they cost someone on a measured connection.  After
> the OI fail, I booted gparted and took a picture of what it reported to
> verify that it was what I had done.
>
> The simple fact of the matter is both the text and the GUI install
> completely ignore the GPT label on the disk.
>
> I created a 2 GB partition, a 100 GB partition and allocated the rest of
> the disk to a 3rd partition.  I then booted the OI disk which ignored the
> partitioning and refused to use more than 2 TB.
>
> This is simply a failure to actually test the image before release.
> Relative to creating a distribution ISO image, testing it is vanishingly
> little work.  I do not know and do not care whose neck this albatross
> should be hung around.  But I firmly hope that those who do know remove
> this person from the role.  This does more damage to OI than can be
> described.  I have multiple Z400s and an Ultra 20 as well as several
> functional older machines.  I shall be more than happy to test an install
> image before it is put up for general use.
>
> I was, and still am willing to work on OI.  But the lack of anything
> resembling cooperation makes that rather difficult.  The computer is the
> final arbiter.  If OI fails on a system Sun certified for Solaris 10 there
> is a very serious QC issue.  You can't blame this on the difficulties posed
> by "arbitrary hardware".
>
> Reg
>
>
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