[OmniOS-discuss] further problem with r010 install with kayak

[Dan McDonald]

On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:27 PM, Doug Hughes <doug at will.to> wrote:

> 
> I got the miniroot (earlier emails) worked out by getting the bloody build and building a new miniroot, but I suspect that this is making the final boot non-functional because it's not backwards compatible because it includes new com.delphix:embedded_data.

That's likely the problem.

> The kayak install works fine, but I get a bunch of missing feature messages very quickly (had to catch them in video from my camera-phone), and then it just goes to grub, so it won't boot successfully. I do have a working 012 kayak build, but I know that's not ready yet, and the r011 should be considered toxic.

You can always, post-install, edit the "unix" line in grub and add "-k" to the flags.  This will force a boot with the kernel debugger loaded.  Instead of panicking and rebooting, it'll drop into the debugger, where you can utter "$c" and other commands to see where it broke.

> Looking for advice on the best course of action here (since the r010 included miniroot is totally broken)


I wish I had a good answer for you.  We have two things left before 012 can officially release, and one of them is this very miniroot & kayak problem you were seeing.  I won't release 012 until we have kayak & miniroot working satisfactorily. (Right now, the miniroot panics, and even using -k doesn't help!)  The other problem is more pressing, though, so I can't get you progress on kayak until I solve this other problem.

Thank you for your patience,
Dan