[OpenIndiana-discuss] We have install images which work!

[Toomas Soome]

> On 4. May 2021, at 22:09, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
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> I was doing bare metal on an HP Z840. Does anyone know of any documentation on the VBox boot process? It's obviously not running the BIOS initial loader to read the first sector on the disk.
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> Reg
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First sector (MBR) is not read with UEFI boot. I see no reason, why it should not read first sector with BIOS boot:)

rgds,
toomas


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> On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 01:35:59 PM CDT, epektasis <rptnix at amerytel.net <mailto:rptnix at amerytel.net>> wrote:
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> FWIW, I downloaded the 2021.04.30 gui install and installed it into Vbox
> (6.1.22 on Artix Linux) with 4.25 Gb RAM allotted. It installed fine. True,
> gparted did not work, but the graphical installer selected the entire
> available partition, though it only used 7.3Gb. Rebooted fine (apparently the
> boot loader was installed), except system/xvm/ipagent:default failed
> repeatedly and was transitioned to maintenance; but the gui interface loaded
> and I logged in. I believe I had that same error when I installed that
> 2021.04.05 test release; in that former case, pkg update cleared up that
> problem and perhaps it will this time also. I did not find these matters to
> be "major" problems; the newly installed system is running.
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