Add initial Solaris/Illumos/OpenIndiana support #697
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The OpenIndiana kernel panics on boot in the AHCI driver. Switching the machine type from "q35" to "pc" seems to fix the issue.
Added quickget changes for OpenIndiana
OpenIndiana's default Xorg configuration doesn't work with QXL, virtio, or VGA, but it does with vmware-svga.
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Thanks for coming back to this @chasecovello . Am I being dim? The gui iso booted fine, installed apparently OK with the gui installer but the resulting virtual disk doesn't boot for me. Trying again with the text installer but is there something that needs doing after installing and before rebooting (that I need to add to the docs for all the curious folk who will fire it up, hit the defaults and end up only rebooting into the iso installer ? Update: was being dim - needed to change the boot environment. I probably need to add a section to the docs repo |
The OpenIndiana installer defaults to MBR partition table and BIOS boot code even in EFI mode, so changed quickget to set 'boot="legacy"' in the configuration file.
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I didn't catch this earlier because I only used the text mode installer, not GUI. I think I figured it out. The installer defaults to creating an MBR partition table without an EFI system partition. The text installer correctly creates a GPT table with EFI partition only if you select to install on the "whole disk" and not in a partition. The GUI installer appears to have a bug that creates an MBR regardless of which option you choose. However, all four installation methods (GUI/whole disk, GUI/partition, text/whole disk, text/partition) work with BIOS boot. Text/whole disk still creates EFI/GPT, but makes it bootable with BIOS as well. So I've modified quickget to write 'boot="legacy"' to the config file. After doing test installs with all four methods, it seems to work. I've pushed the changes to my repo (along with a USB controller fix -- ehci seems to lose interrupts, xhci works). |
* Add initial Solaris/Illumos support * Fix OpenIndiana kernel panic on boot The OpenIndiana kernel panics on boot in the AHCI driver. Switching the machine type from "q35" to "pc" seems to fix the issue. * Fix Illumos/OpenIndiana USB controller issue. * Add openindiana support * Updated quickget with current OpenIndiana release * Change OpenIndiana video card to vmware-svga OpenIndiana's default Xorg configuration doesn't work with QXL, virtio, or VGA, but it does with vmware-svga. * Updated man pages for OpenIndiana support * Changed default Solaris/OpenIndiana boot to legacy The OpenIndiana installer defaults to MBR partition table and BIOS boot code even in EFI mode, so changed quickget to set 'boot="legacy"' in the configuration file. --------- Co-authored-by: Phil Clifford <[email protected]>
* Add initial Solaris/Illumos support * Fix OpenIndiana kernel panic on boot The OpenIndiana kernel panics on boot in the AHCI driver. Switching the machine type from "q35" to "pc" seems to fix the issue. * Fix Illumos/OpenIndiana USB controller issue. * Add openindiana support * Updated quickget with current OpenIndiana release * Change OpenIndiana video card to vmware-svga OpenIndiana's default Xorg configuration doesn't work with QXL, virtio, or VGA, but it does with vmware-svga. * Updated man pages for OpenIndiana support * Changed default Solaris/OpenIndiana boot to legacy The OpenIndiana installer defaults to MBR partition table and BIOS boot code even in EFI mode, so changed quickget to set 'boot="legacy"' in the configuration file. --------- Co-authored-by: Phil Clifford <[email protected]>
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