> On 30. Jul 2024, at 10:33, Ignacio Soriano Hernandez via illumos-discuss > <discuss@lists.illumos.org> wrote: > > Btw Toomas, did you had any chance to look into the boot problem and the > bootloader problem in OpenIndiana https://www.illumos.org/issues/16412 having > to use an external boot media, prompt and setting currdev is kind of "boring" > :-) > > Cheers > > Iggi
ou. tbh, I forgot about it… sorry. I’ll see if I have some time slot for it a bit later… toomas >> Toomas Soome via illumos-discuss <discuss@lists.illumos.org> schrieb am 30. >> Juli 2024 um 9:16: >> >> >> >> >>> On 30. Jul 2024, at 10:02, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 10:26 PM nsgnkhibdk2cls0f via illumos-discuss >>> <discuss@lists.illumos.org <mailto:discuss@lists.illumos.org>> wrote: >>>> >>>> The gpart utility of FreeBSD is very user friendly, unlike the illumos >>>> format program which is terrible. >>> >>> There are certain applications, and disk formatting utilities arguably fall >>> into this >>> camp, where the ideal path forward is not to make it user-friendly, but to >>> move >>> towards eradicating the need to use it at all. >> >> I once had group of 4 linux admins in solaris sysadmin training, 3 of 4 >> failed tasks related to disk partitioning:) not because of tooling, but >> because of lack of understanding the concept. (they were rather surprised >> themselves;) And yes, that surviving one had BSD background;) >> >> I have had an idea of building something like gpart is — from UI point of >> view it really does not matter how the partition support is implemented in >> the kernel, but never got time to do it. I think it would be interesting >> task for something like GSoC… >> >> Of course from technical point of view the geom is otherwise interesting. >> >> rgds, >> toomas >> > > illumos <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest> / illumos-discuss / see > discussions <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + participants > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + delivery options > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription>Permalink > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T6e71fd07931f5120-Mff8224e698765a32519c1323> ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Td48bc38764831ebd-M1654a794007926e903eb8ec8 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
