> On 24. Apr 2021, at 23:56, Nelson H. F. Beebe <be...@math.utah.edu> wrote: > > Thanks for the additional suggestions to get the CentOS-7 based > OpenIndiana to boot. Here is what I get: > > boot: status > disk device: > disk0: BIOS driver C (167772160 X 512) > disk0s1: Solaris 2 79GB > disk0s1a: root 79GB > disk0s1i: root 8032KB Why there are two root slices? it should not disturb us but still weird. anyhow, can you mail me full partition table, format -> verify or partition -> print.ole disk Since this is VM and no dual-boot, I recommend to only do whole disk setup (that is, GPT automatically prepared). But for now, I wonder how your current slices are defined:) rgds, toomas > > illumos/x86 boot > Default: /boot/loader > boot: ?/ > > illumos/x86 boot > Default: /boot/loader > > I propose that we drop this one for now, unless someone has deeper > insight into how to recover from this failed installation. > > There is more information on the boot loader at > > https://illumos.org/man/5/loader > > but none of the few commands documented there worked for me. > > Next week, I'll retry an OpenIndiana installation with the OVirt > alternative on CentOS 7; I may also play with different disk types on > virt-manager. The disk is currently SATA, but IDE, SCSI, USB, and > VirtIO are also possible (though USB isn't a candidate). > > I can also report that the big package update (300+) that I ran today > on the OpenIndiana system on Ubuntu 20.04 was problem free, and the > system has been rebooted twice since, to make a virt-manager snapshot, > as well as a ZFS snapshot. On this system, as on our many other > ZFS-based O/Ses, I have cron jobs that take daily snapshots, and the > VM disk images themselves are backed-up nightly to LTO-8 tape, and to > a remote datacenter. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 > - > - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 > - > - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: be...@math.utah.edu > - > - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 be...@acm.org be...@computer.org > - > - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ > - > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The kiss of death
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