# [OmniOS-discuss] Installation problem with OmniOSce R151022s

Lawrence Giam paladinemishakal at gmail.com
Wed Nov 15 04:39:27 UTC 2017

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    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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