Hi Andy, Thanks for the help, I got it to work as instructed.
Cheers!!! On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Andy Fiddaman <omn...@citrus-it.net> wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Lawrence Giam wrote: > > ; Hi All, > ; > ; I am trying to install OmniOSce R151022s and am facing problem with the > ; installer. > ; > ... snip ... > ; 4. Run the command: zpool create -f rpool c3t0d0p0. > ... snip ... > ; Questions: > > ; 1. The BSD Loader take more than 5 minutes to load, is this normal? The > ; OmniOS installer does not take that long to boot. > > Not in my experience except from a USB drive. It is loading a lot of data > since the miniroot now includes the ZFS stream. > > ; 2. How do we install OmniOSce to a partition on a disk instead of using > the > ; whole disk? > > You are confusing the partition table in the disk's MBR with the VTOC label > used by Solaris. You should not be creating a zpool using the ...p0 device. > > Try this after having created the partition in fdisk: > > # Force re-genration of the VTOC. > # This will result in slice 2 being set up properly to span the entire > # partition. > prtvtoc -h /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 | awk '$1==8{print}' \ > | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 > > # Now add slice 0 covering the whole partition > # The same as slice 2 except tagged as root and mountable. > # (you can do this interactively via format or run this) > > fmthard -d `prtvtoc -h /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 \ > | awk '$1==2{printf("0:2:00:%d:%d\n",$4,$5)}'` /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 > > # Check > echo -e 'p\np' | format c3t0d0 > > You should see that slice 0 is flagged as root and spans the entire > partition > > # Create zpool > zpool create -f rpool c3t0d0s0 > > Proceed to option 2 in the menu as before. > > I've just tested this with OmniOSce r151024. > > HTH, > > Andy > > -- > Citrus IT Limited | +44 (0)333 0124 007 | enquir...@citrus-it.co.uk > Rock House Farm | Green Moor | Wortley | Sheffield | S35 7DQ > Registered in England and Wales | Company number 4899123 > >
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