Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD = 2TB
On 01/31/13 11:02 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2013-01-31 12:47, Mirko Fluher wrote: I recently tried .. to install OI 151a7 live on the following computer; cpu i7 mboard: gigabyte B75M-D3H HD: Segate SATA3 2TB with plenty of ram ... it simply wouldn't install ... it cannot see the partition .. yet on that HD I run linux Ubuntu Centos and have plenty of spare room. I then decided to use an old 250G SATA2 HD ... and no problems - same settings in the Motherboard. I'd take it, you also used the same SATA port for both drives, so that missing driver can be ruled out? same config. same hardware ... just different HD ... old 250g used to have a linux system on it. My main guess would be that your other OSes mapped the disk as GPT and OI (older GRUB in particular, as well as installer and rpool support) are not yet compatible with it for a boot device (it's ok for storage pools). GPT involves a legacy MBR partition that addresses your whole disk and blocks non-GPT systems from using it and messing up. There are hacks to add either GPT support to legacy GRUB, or add an alternate MBR partition table to address the same sector ranges as GPT and thus fool an older OS into working with the disk, but these are tricks at the experimenter's risk. Alternately, you can wait for GRUB2 integration and related fixes to installer and rpool routines - or better yet, help it happen! ;) I wish ... :) I told the installation program to use the entire HD. (snip) attached is a a dump of the output of 'gparted' as it is provided by the system. It complains about mount point ... but I assume there is a problem with gparted... I believe this problem is indeed in gparted. Seems like it was taken from a Linux/other OS source and used as is - with little integration to Solaris/ZFS realities. I'd guess it looks for the device node name in /etc/vfstab (if it's even smart enough to not use /etc/fstab as it would in many other OSes), and unable to find that match - complains. I'd say it is a cosmetical annoyance however ;) //Jim Thank you for the reply Jim. I'll just have to wait a little bit longer... Cheers, ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD = 2TB
On 01/31/13 11:27 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote: What model disk? Seagate 2TB SATA3 I'm about to do battle w/ installing OI_151a7 on 4k sector 2 TB Seagate disks in an HP N40L. You can't boot OI from disks over 2 TB as they require an EFI label. Solaris 11.1 is reported to have fixed the problem, but even the Oracle doc's have not caught up to the change. I can see the disks w/ format, but have not yet attempted to install. I ran a surface analysis first since I'm building a file server w/ 3 disks. Surface analysis on a 2 TB disk takes about 12 hours to run. Did you run format(1m) manually? I just used the LiveDVD 'oi-dev-151a7-live' ... and it just told me it couldn't see the HD. I don't know what the current situation is, but years ago I installed FreeBSD, Linux Solaris on the same disk. It took probably a dozen install attempts to figure out. Ultimately I had to alter the fdisk partition type ID, install the next OS, and then change it back. There was also a particular order of install required because one of the installers was actively hostile to the others. I don't recall which though. IIRC (it was 10+ years ago) the main issue was Linux swap used the same fdisk partition ID as Solaris. After that I switched to using removable drive caddies. My current recommendation for laptops is to install to USB drives, but the 4k sector problem is making that difficult. But for a desktop system, the caddies are the way to go. this is basically what I am doing at the moment ... and until OI can see my 2TB and partitions ... so at the moment is OI on a good old 250g :) Cheers, ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD = 2TB
On 02/ 1/13 12:12 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: From: Mirko Fluher [mailto:m...@pax.apana.org.au] it simply wouldn't install ... it cannot see the partition .. yet on that HD I run linux Ubuntu Centos and have plenty of spare room. Are you trying to dual/triple boot the system? I would assume such a thing is possible, but probably very tricky, and probably very risky for trashing the other systems. Hopefully you can avoid doing that. Why not run OI as a host os, and then run the centos/ubuntu as guest OSes? (For example, VirtualBox) I CANNOT install OI on my 2TB Sata3 HD ... the liveDVD simply cannot see the HD ... :) All I can do at the moment is use OI on a smaller .. old 250G HD Cheers, ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] Help installing OI
I cannot install OpenIndiana using the current LiveDVD because it cannot see my see my HD ... ?? [gparted, as provided on the LiveDVD sees the whole HD as unallocated] ?? Computer used: cpu: i7 3.4 mboard: gigabyte B75M-D3H (UEFI dualbios) ram: 32g HD: Segate 2TB cdrom: LG B-ray. At the moment, the above HD has 3x 300G partitions. The fist one runs Ubuntu, the second Centos the third is blank (/ext4) and the rest of the HD is 'unused'. Has anyone installed OI on this type of hardware ? Is it a case of having to install OI first ?? by creating a partition using OI's gparted or fdisk ... ? -- http://pax.apana.org.au gpg key id: EACDC062 pgp.mit.edu Linux #19227 http://www.ausif.org.au Jesus Saves, Moses Invests, But only Buddha pays Dividends -- ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help installing OI
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 13:37 +0100, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: Error verifying signature: parse error On 28/01/2013 11:32, Mirko Fluher wrote: I cannot install OpenIndiana using the current LiveDVD because it cannot see my see my HD ... ?? [gparted, as provided on the LiveDVD sees the whole HD as unallocated] ?? Computer used: cpu: i7 3.4 mboard: gigabyte B75M-D3H (UEFI dualbios) ram: 32g HD: Segate 2TB cdrom: LG B-ray. At the moment, the above HD has 3x 300G partitions. The fist one runs Ubuntu, the second Centos the third is blank (/ext4) and the rest of the HD is 'unused'. Has anyone installed OI on this type of hardware ? Is it a case of having to install OI first ?? by creating a partition using OI's gparted or fdisk ... ? Use ddu (icon on the left) on the live-DVD to find out specific information about which driver is missing. The chipset used on this motherboard is -- Intel B75 Express Chipset as for the missing driver(s) ... it refers to : Intel Corporation Panther Point USB xHCI Host Controller and Intel Corporation Panther Point MEI Conroller #1 Cheers, -- http://pax.apana.org.au gpg key id: EACDC062 pgp.mit.edu Linux #19227 http://www.ausif.org.au Computers are useless. They can only give you answers -- Pablo Picasso ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
