On 03/21/17 08:11 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Setup: running oi-151_9 on:
Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram
I'm about to try installing hipster from the 161030 gui iso on the
above hardware that has been running build 151_9 for something like 2
yrs maybe more.
I've had some good helpful posts on how to get this done. But as I
get nearer to actually doing it... I began to worry about the discs.
I'm running. I've had the rpool on a mirrored pair of ide discs
probably a bit long in the tooth, but trouble free. And expect to
continue running them as mirrored rpool.
Nilolas M tried to explain to me, how to handle the new grub / new
boot loader kind of problem but some of it flew right over my head.
So the IDE discs I'll use for rpool currently have grub in the MBR.
You should probably better use SATA disks in SATA mode (check
motherboard settings too), because IDE under illumos do not have
'smartctl' working under illumos and SATA in general does control/check
data transfer and SATA implementation is much better on illumos.
It is always better to use full disks for zpool, because that way system
won't turn off on-disk cache. (because with partitions, one might use
UFS and ZFS on same disks and it is turned because of UFS having
problems if it is not the only filsystem on disk).
If used as full disks zpool disks are formatted as GPT disks.
If installing on MBR partition it is better to delete partition and let
installer create partition and slice in free space then to give to the
installer ready-made partition. That is because on top of max 4 MBR
partitions, there are also up to 8 Solaris slices that are being created
on top of it and is is better to have zpool on the top of slice, then on
top of MBR partition directly.
Are there steps I need to take to rid them of grub? Something I can do
once the machine is shutdown and booted with a livecd or something.
And what about the data on them... does it need removed in some way?
I mean beyond deleting.
That last bit also goes for the other 4 discs but they are all sata.
Is there something beyond deleting data that needs to be done?
You can probably boot live media and do zpool import and zpool destroy
if there are existing pools you don't need. Plus giving to installer
free disk space instead of ready-made partition.
Installer should install illumos loader, but also once booted into newly
installed BE and update, one can reinstall illumos loader. (bootadm
install-bootloader -Mfv)
If you want, you can also checkout #openindiana channel on
irc.freenode.net for general chat etc. (irc://irc.freenode.net/openindiana)
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