I downloaded and installed the latest Hipster edition Snapshot 2025.10 on an
XPS 8940. I use this as a hobby OS box and multiboot various OSes. I created a
zfs pool on a partition in FreeBSD and successfully installed Openindiana on it
using the text installer and F5_InstallationToExistingPool.
I even copied over the EFI boot loader to the EFI partition and I am able to
boot the Openindiana install via rEFInd.
Now on to my problem: when I used the text installer I was able to set a root
password. However, the text installer DID NOT provide an option to setup a
username and password. So when I rebooted post install, it goes straight to a
graphical login window and no matter what combination of username (jack,
openindiana, root) and password (jack, blank, root password I set during
install, openindiana) nothing works. I have read online that the root password
expires immediately upon successful install.
I am able to boot the USB installer, mount the zpool but unable to chroot in
because ahem I do not know how to do it.
I also tried CTRL-ALT-F1 etc to get to a tty but no success. When I boot to
single user, it will not accept any username and password I provide.
So, what should I try next?
Regards
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