fstyp -v /dev/rdsk/c0t500A0751E215908Dd0s0
pcfs
Bytes Per Sector 512 Sectors Per Cluster 1
Reserved Sectors 32 Number of FATs 2
Root Dir Entries 0 Number of Sectors 0
Sectors Per FAT 0 Sectors Per Track 112
Number of Heads 224 Number Hidden Sectors 0
Volume ID: 0x0
Volume Label: NONAME
Drive Number: 0x80
Media Type: 0xf8 "Fixed" Disk
Current partition table (original):
Total disk sectors available: 976756717 + 16384 (reserved sectors)
Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
0 system wm 256 256.00MB 524543
1 usr wm 524544 465.50GB 976756750
2 unassigned wm 0 0 0
3 unassigned wm 0 0 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 0
6 unassigned wm 0 0 0
8 reserved wm 976756751 8.00MB 976773134
Total disk size is 38933 cylinders
Cylinder size is 25088 (512 byte) blocks
Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 EFI 0 38933 38934 100
> On Nov 9, 2019, at 10:11 AM, Toomas Soome <tso...@me.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 9. Nov 2019, at 18:04, Jedi Tek'Unum <jediteku...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:jediteku...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I realize this is likely a completely separate problem but UEFI Boot Manager
>> cannot see the installed disk. It shows only the optical drive. From within
>> the UEFI Boot Manager, I can go directly to the BIOS Boot Manager and it
>> DOES see the disk and boots off it.
>
>
> Please verify you actually do have pcfs on first slice, like this:
>
> # fstyp -v /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0
>
> How big is the partition?
>
> rgds,
> toomas
>
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 8, 2019, at 3:56 PM, Till Wegmüller <toaster...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:toaster...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info.
>>>
>>> When Talking with tsoome he mentioned that some Firmaware might not be
>>> that inteligent when Updating boot options and Instead rely on the OS to
>>> instruct them what to boot from UEFI.
>>>
>>> We currently lack the framework to set these variables from the os.
>>>
>>> So It might be as simple as only needing to update the Boot Options in
>>> the BIOS settings of UEFI boot mode.
>>>
>>> Greetings
>>> Till
>>> On 08.11.19 21:38, Jedi Tek'Unum wrote:
>>>> All comments here are relative to 20191106…
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 7, 2019, at 1:30 PM, Till Wegmüller <toaster...@gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:toaster...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Cool so something was better this time round with the media
>>>>>
>>>>> I talked to the developer of loader tsoome (cc'd as he is not on this
>>>>> list) today.
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically the situation you where experiencing with loader and the text
>>>>> image can only happen if the system is returning reads with one of
>>>>> following codes: result == 0x20 || result == 0x31 || result == 0x80 - we
>>>>> do not print error messages on those.
>>>>> 0x20 is controller failure, 31 and 80 are no media in drive
>>>>>
>>>>> If the system is reporting read errors, only thing loader can do is to
>>>>> reset the controller and try again - the biosdisk.c does 3 attempts
>>>>> there (except for those 3 errors).
>>>>>
>>>>> What you could try is booting via UEFI mode and see if that works.
>>>>
>>>> Good news and bad news.
>>>>
>>>> All 3, minimal, text, and gui will boot from Virtual CD using UEFI.
>>>>
>>>> However, after installing from each, none of the installations will boot
>>>> using UEFI (“No boot device available.” error). BUT, they will boot after
>>>> going back to BIOS mode.
>>>>
>>>>> My guess is that Dell broke something in the old Bios Bootloader code.
>>>>>
>>>>> The new error you are getting from the gui image could also be a read
>>>>> error.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you post the output of lsdev from the ok prompt?
>>>>
>>>> This is from the gui failure booting from Virtual CD using BIOS mode.
>>>>
>>>> fd devices:
>>>> fd0: BIOS drive A (2880 X 512):
>>>> fd1: BIOS drive B (2880 X 512):
>>>> cd devices:
>>>> cd0: BIOS drive H (348160 X 2048):
>>>> disk devices:
>>>> disk0: BIOS drive C (976773168 X 512):
>>>> disk0s1: Solaris 2
>>>> disk0s1a: root
>>>> disk0s1i: boot
>>>> disk1: BIOS drive D (1 X 512):
>>>> disk2: BIOS drive E (286749480 X 512):
>>>> disk3: BIOS drive F (976773168 X 512):
>>>> disk4: BIOS drive G (286749480 X 512):
>>>> zfs devices:
>>>> zfs:rpool
>>>>
>>>>> I am curious if loader is able to see the VirtualCD drive.
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings
>>>>> Till
>>>>> On 07.11.19 19:34, Jedi Tek'Unum wrote:
>>>>>> OI-hipster-minimal-20191106.iso works
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OI-hipster-text-20191106.iso works! This is a change from 20190511. I
>>>>>> went back and tried 20190511 again and it still fails.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OI-hipster-gui-20191106.iso fails as before with
>>>>>>
>>>>>> loading CORE EXT words
>>>>>> loading SEARCH & SEARCH-EXT words
>>>>>> loading Johns-Hopkins locals
>>>>>> loading MARKER
>>>>>> loading ficl O-O extensions
>>>>>> loading ficl utility classes
>>>>>> loading ficl string classes
>>>>>> \
>>>>>> start not found
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Type ‘?’ for a list of commands, ‘help’ for more detailed help.
>>>>>> ok
>>>>>>
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