Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation to ZFS partition on NVME drive - login issues

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:01:51 -0800 


> On 17. Jan 2026, at 04:26, Gireesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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?

boot from alternate media, zpool import -N (to avoid mounting file systems), 
then use beadm list, beadm mount bename /mnt, chroot /mnt passwd root. Then 
beadm umount /mnt, zpool export pool and boot from disk.

rgds,
toomas


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