Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
On 13/08/2021 2:32 pm, Carl Brewer wrote: On 2/08/2021 8:02 pm, david allan finch wrote: I got chance to look at this again. No of that seamed to work. I found an old Windows boot USB and that boots, so it is not the usb boot system. I created a new USB drive with the latest OI and I still get the same issue. May be I am using the Win32DiskImager wrong or there is an issue creating the bootable USB drive. Is anyone else attually doing this from Windows? I'm trying to do the same thing, brand new Toshiba 16GB USB3 drive, using the 202104 USB image and win32diskimager to install it, using default settings - it's not showing up in the BIOS boot menu at all. Seconding your question, has anyone here in recent memory been able to boot off the USB image installed on a USB drive with win32diskimager? Scratch that, I got the Hipster USB image to boot. It's just super-fussy about secure boot being off. Carl OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
On 2/08/2021 8:02 pm, david allan finch wrote: I got chance to look at this again. No of that seamed to work. I found an old Windows boot USB and that boots, so it is not the usb boot system. I created a new USB drive with the latest OI and I still get the same issue. May be I am using the Win32DiskImager wrong or there is an issue creating the bootable USB drive. Is anyone else attually doing this from Windows? I'm trying to do the same thing, brand new Toshiba 16GB USB3 drive, using the 202104 USB image and win32diskimager to install it, using default settings - it's not showing up in the BIOS boot menu at all. Seconding your question, has anyone here in recent memory been able to boot off the USB image installed on a USB drive with win32diskimager? OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
I think POSIX systems work best. If you are using Windows, there should be an Oracle or OpenSolaris imager floating around that is massively out of date. From: david allan finch Sent: Monday, August 2, 2021 5:02 AM To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb I got chance to look at this again. No of that seamed to work. I found an old Windows boot USB and that boots, so it is not the usb boot system. I created a new USB drive with the latest OI and I still get the same issue. May be I am using the Win32DiskImager wrong or there is an issue creating the bootable USB drive. Is anyone else attually doing this from Windows? On 07/07/21 12:08 PM, david allan finch wrote: > On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: >> there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). > > thanks > >> >> in your case, the problem starts from the fact that we do not get >> information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed >> without partitioning information. >> >> We would like to see something like: >> >> disk0:BIOS drive C (….) >>disk0p1: EFI256MB >>disk0p2: …. >> >> and so on. I’m not really sure what did happen while usb image was >> written to the stick, but something seems to be wrong there. Does >> windows see any partitions there? > > I had put in an old disk that had been used as a raid for the boot > drive. It was not formated. I found another and it now shows that as > disk1 D with a two windows paritions. > > It must be booting, from the usb, as without the OI usb tumbdrive it > says there is no bootable disk. > > As I seam to have something else coming up as disk0 C - there must be > another M2 like drive which is has placed as C. > > I wonder if the USB boot assumes it is the second disk? > > So assuming that the M2 should be there only with the USB, I took out > the phyical drive. It does the same. So that is not it. > > May be later I will try taking out the M2 as well. > > Thanks. > > > > > ___ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
I got chance to look at this again. No of that seamed to work. I found an old Windows boot USB and that boots, so it is not the usb boot system. I created a new USB drive with the latest OI and I still get the same issue. May be I am using the Win32DiskImager wrong or there is an issue creating the bootable USB drive. Is anyone else attually doing this from Windows? On 07/07/21 12:08 PM, david allan finch wrote: On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). thanks in your case, the problem starts from the fact that we do not get information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed without partitioning information. We would like to see something like: disk0: BIOS drive C (….) disk0p1: EFI 256MB disk0p2: …. and so on. I’m not really sure what did happen while usb image was written to the stick, but something seems to be wrong there. Does windows see any partitions there? I had put in an old disk that had been used as a raid for the boot drive. It was not formated. I found another and it now shows that as disk1 D with a two windows paritions. It must be booting, from the usb, as without the OI usb tumbdrive it says there is no bootable disk. As I seam to have something else coming up as disk0 C - there must be another M2 like drive which is has placed as C. I wonder if the USB boot assumes it is the second disk? So assuming that the M2 should be there only with the USB, I took out the phyical drive. It does the same. So that is not it. May be later I will try taking out the M2 as well. Thanks. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
On 07/07/21 10:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). thanks in your case, the problem starts from the fact that we do not get information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed without partitioning information. We would like to see something like: disk0: BIOS drive C (….) disk0p1: EFI256MB disk0p2: …. and so on. I’m not really sure what did happen while usb image was written to the stick, but something seems to be wrong there. Does windows see any partitions there? I had put in an old disk that had been used as a raid for the boot drive. It was not formated. I found another and it now shows that as disk1 D with a two windows paritions. It must be booting, from the usb, as without the OI usb tumbdrive it says there is no bootable disk. As I seam to have something else coming up as disk0 C - there must be another M2 like drive which is has placed as C. I wonder if the USB boot assumes it is the second disk? So assuming that the M2 should be there only with the USB, I took out the phyical drive. It does the same. So that is not it. May be later I will try taking out the M2 as well. Thanks. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
> On 7. Jul 2021, at 11:13, david allan finch wrote: > > On 07/07/21 09:02 AM, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote: >> disk-1: is error about boot loader stage 1 being unable to identify the boot >> disk (partition read failure or filesystem read failure or disk read failure >> - but then you should see additional error messages). >> usb image does have GPT partition table, you could try to enter: status and >> see what device names will be printed. > > Thanks for that. Attached is screenshot. Is there any docs for the boot > loader? > there are several manuals, boot(1M), gptzzfsboot(5), loader(5). in your case, the problem starts from the fact that we do not get information about partitions, on screenshot, all disks are listed without partitioning information. We would like to see something like: disk0: BIOS drive C (….) disk0p1: EFI 256MB disk0p2: …. and so on. I’m not really sure what did happen while usb image was written to the stick, but something seems to be wrong there. Does windows see any partitions there? rgs, toomas ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing a new Openindiana via usb
> On 7. Jul 2021, at 10:53, david allan finch wrote: > > Hi, > > I have not installed openindiana on real hardware for sometime, done it lots > of times via a iso on virtualbox. > > I copied the latest usb image with Win32DiskImager on to a usb thumbdrive. > > When it boot I get: > > list of c: ... and disk-x > > illumos/x86 boot > Can't find disk-1:/boot/loader > > I have tried disk-0:/boot/loader etc and it still does nothing. Can some one > point me to what I am doing wrong? > > TIA disk-1: is error about boot loader stage 1 being unable to identify the boot disk (partition read failure or filesystem read failure or disk read failure - but then you should see additional error messages). usb image does have GPT partition table, you could try to enter: status and see what device names will be printed. rgds, toomas ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
