The i/o error is simple to reproduce. Take an erased NVMe drive, use format> fdisk and either answer "yes" to "100% SOLARIS2", or "no" and select whatever you like, I suggest "EFI". Make it stick, with a FAT32 ESP with flags set to "boot, efi" or setting the partition active in fdisk. What I can't tell you is what steps to follow to make it say both "100% EFI" in format> fd, *and* have format> label *then* ask if I want an SMI or EFI label. Toggle solaris/solaris2 all you like.
-Eric ---- On Thu, 23 May 2024 09:22:55 -0700 Eric J Bowman via illumos-discuss <[email protected]> wrote --- Actually, I'm trying to figure out what the wizard knows... the proper arcane incantations. Here's what I see in the format utility: 1,!active,EFI,0,38933,38934,100% Enter Selection: 6 This is where my i/o error occurs, regardless of 6 or 7, 99 times out of 100. The other times, I get this: format> label [0] SMI Label [1] EFI Label Specify Label type[1]: With [1] being the correct answer, after which point I never get the i/o error again, and partition 1 goes "active" when I name s3 "system". How'd I do that? I do not know. But I've been cursing at a wizard that actually does know better, lol. When this works, I proceed with a conventional GPT partitioning scheme which achieves the cross-platform, cross-media, cross-OS compatibility/interoperability I set out to accomplish. This is why I can't just use the Tribblix ./format-a-disk.sh, SMI allows that s2 "backup" partition to overlap, etc. etc. which does not work with EFI or other OS's. Yes, I know how to use fmthard to get that SMI/EFI choice, but the "format" wizard's utilities won't work with it, sooner or later that i/o error crops up. -Eric https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest / illumos-discuss / see https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss + https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members + https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T2a5c9e4dbedfaf21-Mbbaf47acb5b6a4331e7c8882 ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T2a5c9e4dbedfaf21-Mc63325811178b2fdba2aea82 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
