Am 06.01.23 11:43 schrieb Toomas Soome <tso...@me.com>: > > > > > On 6. Jan 2023, at 12:06, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss > > <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > > > I have a disk installed with Openindiana and installboot shows bootloader > > at cxt0d0s1 and has not cxt0d0p1 > > The disk will not recognized by BIOS for boot but it boots if selected in > > loader. > > > > On other resources shows EFI boot files on cxt0d0p1. > > > > Is p1 partition necessary for boot? > > How looks like a correct disk partitioning nowadys? > > > > sX is partition from either GPT or VTOC > > p0 is whole disk > p1-p4 are MBR primary partitions and p5.. are extended. > > With GPT you have MBR in absolute sector 0 and only one partition defined > (EFI), this is “protective” MBR and meant to tell non-GPT aware partition > programs that you have partition defined. GPT itself is on absolute sector 1 > and followed by partition array. > > Classic Solaris x86 partitioning is MBR + VTOC, you are supposed to have one > Solaris2 MBR primary partition per disk and on that partition you have VTOC. > > With zpool “whole disk” setup, you will get GPT partitioning, with s0[, s1] > and s8 defined (GPT does not allow overlapping partitions). Depending if > zpool create -B was used, you may or may not have efi system partition. > > MBR + VTOC scheme is assuming you have single Solaris2 MBR (primary) > partition, in it you have VTOC table and it has to be manually described > (usually has root, backup (s2) and boot slices). > > rgds, > toomas >
I have: Total disk size is 60799 cylinders Cylinder size is 64260 (512 byte) blocks Cylinders Partition Status Type Start End Length % ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === 1 EFI 0 60799 60800 100 # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0 * /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0 EFI partition map * * Dimensions: * 512 bytes/sector * 3906963456 sectors * 3906963389 accessible sectors * * Flags: * 1: unmountable * 10: read-only * * Unallocated space: * First Sector Last * Sector Count Sector * 34 222 255 * * First Sector Last * Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory 0 12 00 256 524288 524543 1 4 00 524544 3906422495 3906947038 8 11 00 3906947039 16384 3906963422 but installboot show boot files on s1 # installboot -V -i /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s1 PMBR block from /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0p0: Format: loader (illumos) Signature: 0xaa55 (valid) UniqueMBRDiskSignature: 0x5f107 Loader STAGE1_STAGE2_LBA: 524544 Loader STAGE1_STAGE2_SIZE: 1 Loader STAGE1_STAGE2_UUID: f24d9e68-cfe1-6158-8448-dc2a119643a3 VBR block from /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s1: Format: loader (illumos) Signature: 0xaa55 (valid) UniqueMBRDiskSignature: 0 Loader STAGE1_STAGE2_LBA: 525568 Loader STAGE1_STAGE2_SIZE: 279 Loader STAGE1_STAGE2_UUID: f24d9e68-cfe1-6158-8448-dc2a119643a3 Boot block from /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s1: Boot Block Extended Info Header: magic: EXTINFO version: 1 flags: 0 extended version string offset: 71 extended version string size: 16 hashing type: 1 (MD5) hash offset: 54 hash size: 16 Extended version string: 1.1-2022.09.04.1 MD5 hash: cadb10776e17f7ff8d53653ae3b8e9c2 # installboot -V -i /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s2 open: I/O error # installboot -V -i /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0 Booting pcfs from EFI labeled disks requires the boot partition. Is s1 the correct location? Should BIOS recognizes the boot disk? -- Carsten _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
