Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] We have install images which work!

[Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss]

> On 4. May 2021, at 22:09, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss 
> <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> I was doing bare metal on an HP Z840. Does anyone know of any documentation 
> on the VBox boot process? It's obviously not running the BIOS initial loader 
> to read the first sector on the disk.
> 
> Reg
> 
> 


First sector (MBR) is not read with UEFI boot. I see no reason, why it should 
not read first sector with BIOS boot:)

rgds,
toomas


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> On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 01:35:59 PM CDT, epektasis <rpt...@amerytel.net 
> <mailto:rpt...@amerytel.net>> wrote:
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> FWIW, I downloaded the 2021.04.30 gui install and installed it into Vbox
> (6.1.22 on Artix Linux) with 4.25 Gb RAM allotted. It installed fine. True,
> gparted did not work, but the graphical installer selected the entire
> available partition, though it only used 7.3Gb. Rebooted fine (apparently the
> boot loader was installed), except system/xvm/ipagent:default failed
> repeatedly and was transitioned to maintenance; but the gui interface loaded
> and I logged in. I believe I had that same error when I installed that
> 2021.04.05 test release; in that former case, pkg update cleared up that
> problem and perhaps it will this time also. I did not find these matters to
> be "major" problems; the newly installed system is running.
> 
> e.
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