[OpenIndiana-discuss] how to install open indiana on a single partition

Thu Oct 14 06:48:37 UTC 2021

> On 14. Oct 2021, at 02:40, Coalson, Timothy Scott (S&T-Student) <tsc5yc at mst.edu> wrote:
> 
> I haven't tried to do a partition setup with openindiana, and as far as I know, the bootloader it uses doesn't support UEFI.
> 
> Tim
> 

We certainly do support UEFI, but with few exceptions - we do not (yet) support secure boot - it should be switched off. And secondly, we do not currently have way to set EFI boot manager variables, so the boot program is installed as generic binary on ESP/efi/boot/bootx64.efi. If there are multiple systems, one would need to create vendor tree on ESP, copy bootx64.efi there and set up UEFI boot manager variables accordingly.

rgds,
toomas

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> Is there something that I should do to get the bootloader (better if it is
> UEFI) to recognize the other partition ?
> 
> Il giorno gio 14 ott 2021 alle ore 01:07 Mario Marietto <
> marietto2008 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
>> Unfortunately I don't have any more disk and I'm out of money :(
>> 
>> Il giorno gio 14 ott 2021 alle ore 00:54 Coalson, Timothy Scott
>> (S&T-Student) <tsc5yc at mst.edu> ha scritto:
>> 
>>> Would adding another internal disk (or maybe even external) and
>>> installing to that not be satisfactory?  That would make the step of
>>> getting a bootloader to recognize the other partition entirely optional, as
>>> you could just have the bios boot from the other disk.
>>> 
>>> Tim
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>>> For me its ok to use ZFS at the end,but I'm forced to install it on a
>>> single partition. But I should partition and format the disk to give the
>>> 50% to OI before starting the installer ?
>>> 
>>> Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 20:55 Toomas Soome via
>>> openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 13. Oct 2021, at 19:16, Mario Marietto <marietto2008 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I never used ZFS. Is it doable even using another FS that I don't know
>>>>> which type it is ?. For example on FreeBSD the basic FS is ufs. So
>>>> usually
>>>>> when I install it I choose ufs instead of ZFS. Maybe I will study ZFS
>>>>> later,since now I don't want to make things more complicated than they
>>>>> already are.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Installer does not let you use anything else than zfs; but the installer
>>>> does let you select either whole disk or partition. Technically you can
>>> set
>>>> up system on ufs, but all normal management tools (pkg update, beadm)
>>> are
>>>> assuming zfs.
>>>> 
>>>> rgds,
>>>> toomas
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Il giorno mer 13 ott 2021 alle ore 18:10 Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru
>>>> <mailto:jimklimov at cos.ru>> ha
>>>>> scritto:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On October 13, 2021 3:55:06 PM UTC, Mario Marietto <
>>>> marietto2008 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello to everyone.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I would like to know if any of you has tried to install open
>>> indiana in
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> specific partition and not on the whole hard disk. Do you have some
>>>>>>> suggestions ? some tutorial that I can learn how to do that ?
>>> thanks.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It would probably have to be a primary partition (if on MBR) of type
>>>>>> Solaris2, but should be doable. IIRC from live/install media you can
>>>>>> manually create an rpool, and then feed it to installer as a done
>>>> thing. It
>>>>>> was a while since I saw the installer :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Actually the installer would probably ask about partitioning; the
>>> trick
>>>>>> above could be more a step to colocate zfs-aware OSes in datasets of
>>>> same
>>>>>> rpool.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jim
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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