[OmniOS-discuss] Installation problem with OmniOSce R151022s

[Lawrence Giam]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the help, I got it to work as instructed.

Cheers!!!

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Andy Fiddaman <omnios at citrus-it.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Lawrence Giam wrote:
>
> ; Hi All,
> ;
> ; I am trying to install OmniOSce R151022s and am facing problem with the
> ; installer.
> ;
> ... snip ...
> ; 4. Run the command: zpool create -f rpool c3t0d0p0.
> ... snip ...
> ; Questions:
>
> ; 1. The BSD Loader take more than 5 minutes to load, is this normal? The
> ; OmniOS installer does not take that long to boot.
>
> Not in my experience except from a USB drive. It is loading a lot of data
> since the miniroot now includes the ZFS stream.
>
> ; 2. How do we install OmniOSce to a partition on a disk instead of using
> the
> ; whole disk?
>
> You are confusing the partition table in the disk's MBR with the VTOC label
> used by Solaris. You should not be creating a zpool using the ...p0 device.
>
> Try this after having created the partition in fdisk:
>
> # Force re-genration of the VTOC.
> # This will result in slice 2 being set up properly to span the entire
> # partition.
> prtvtoc -h /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 | awk '$1==8{print}' \
>     | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2
>
> # Now add slice 0 covering the whole partition
> # The same as slice 2 except tagged as root and mountable.
> # (you can do this interactively via format or run this)
>
> fmthard -d `prtvtoc -h /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 \
>     | awk '$1==2{printf("0:2:00:%d:%d\n",$4,$5)}'` /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2
>
> # Check
> echo -e 'p\np' | format c3t0d0
>
> You should see that slice 0 is flagged as root and spans the entire
> partition
>
> # Create zpool
> zpool create -f rpool c3t0d0s0
>
> Proceed to option 2 in the menu as before.
>
> I've just tested this with OmniOSce r151024.
>
> HTH,
>
> Andy
>
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