[OmniOS-discuss] Using kayak to install on a partition instead of the whole disk

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-09-26 22:40, Kashif Salman wrote:
> Hi, I am hoping to get some help with the kayak installer. I can boot
> okay into the installer and it works fine if I use the whole disk. What
> I need to do is create a partition and use that partition instead of the
> whole disk. Looking at the scripts in /kayak, those are the scripts that
> do most/all of the work. Here is the steps I am taking..

I believe, if this installer achieves the same result as any other for
Solaris on x86, that you need to have a SMI slice table inside the MBR
partition (and SMI on MBR is what's required for rpools). Also note
that you can only have one MBR partition with slices inside for Solaris.

After using fdisk to create the partition, use format to select the disk
in question and label it with the slice table (and define a slice like
s0 to the size you need - whole partition or maybe less). The rpool then
usually uses the s0 (i.e. as /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s0) as its component vdev
(single-disk or mirror).

HTH,
//Jim