[OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-24 Thread Jerry Kemp 
Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana 
(pre-Hipster) system.  I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail=continue switch 
on the other pools.


My yahoo-fu must be off, I've been looking at wiki.openindiana.org and 
docs.openindiana.org .

I'm sure I'm just missing the obvious, but can someone share the details of a failsafe boot for an older, pre-Hipster OpenIndiana 
install please?


Thank you,

Jerry

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-24 Thread Jerry Kemp 

thanks for the quick reply Andrew!!



On 24/01/18 18:49, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

On 24/01/2018 22:55, Jerry Kemp wrote:
Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana 
(pre-Hipster) system.  I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail=continue 
switch on the other pools.


My yahoo-fu must be off, I've been looking at wiki.openindiana.org and 
docs.openindiana.org .

I'm sure I'm just missing the obvious, but can someone share the details of a failsafe boot for an older, pre-Hipster OpenIndiana 
install please?


At the grub menu, move to the BE you want to boot and type 'e' (for edit).
Use cursor keys and add "-m milestone=none" to the boot command line options.
Come out of edit mode (can't remember how off-hand, but it probably tells you 
on bottom of screen, maybe Esc or Return).
Type 'b' to boot.



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-24 Thread Andrew Gabriel 

On 24/01/2018 22:55, Jerry Kemp wrote:
Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, 
apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana 
(pre-Hipster) system.  I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I 
believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail=continue switch on 
the other pools.


My yahoo-fu must be off, I've been looking at wiki.openindiana.org and 
docs.openindiana.org .


I'm sure I'm just missing the obvious, but can someone share the 
details of a failsafe boot for an older, pre-Hipster OpenIndiana 
install please?


At the grub menu, move to the BE you want to boot and type 'e' (for edit).
Use cursor keys and add "-m milestone=none" to the boot command line 
options.
Come out of edit mode (can't remember how off-hand, but it probably 
tells you on bottom of screen, maybe Esc or Return).

Type 'b' to boot.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Harry Putnam 
Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
 writes:

> I'm currently running VBox 5.2.4 on Hipster with Win-7 Pro and Debian
> 9.3 as guests on an HP Z400 I followed the wiki instructions.  Here
> are the scripts I used:
>
>
> # cat tst1
> #!/bin/sh
> pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.4-SunOS-amd64-r119785.pkg . all
> rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall
> sed -i /checkinstall/d SUNWvbox/pkgmap
> pkgadd -d . SUNWvbox

Please see my most recent response to Predrag B.

The presciption you show above went off without a hitch (Thanks), but
it appears upon creating a new vm with the newly installed vbox
GUI. that it may only be capable of creating 32 bit vms/.

Do you see something like that?


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Harry Putnam 
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst
 writes:

[...]

Harry wrote:
>> The presciption you show above went off without a hitch (Thanks), but
>> it appears upon creating a new vm with the newly installed vbox
>> GUI. that it may only be capable of creating 32 bit vms/.
>>
>> Do you see something like that?

Predrag Z responded:
> Nope! I see both 32 and 64 bit in the list (will attach picture, if it
> survives).

OK, good to know.

I wanted to try the install of a new Vbox on an oi vm before going to the
hardware but apparently something is interfering with the vms ability
to recognize 64bit.  Maybe something about being nested beneath a vm HOST.

So, going to the hardware (HP xw8600 workstation with freshly updated
OI running.) Maybe the results will be similar to yours.

Thanks for the timely reply.


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Harry Putnam 
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst
 writes:

> On 01/23/18 03:51, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I see threads periodically about problems installing Virtualbox on a
>> recently updated oi.  And some success stories too, but I really would
>> like to see a summary of how to attempt to install latest vbox.  I
>> think that would be 5.2.6 currently.

[...]


> Hi,
>
> There is (beside Jim's solution) another one (I am using it for recent
> versions on my /hipster OI):
>
> $ pfexec pkgrm SUNWvbox
>
> $ tar xf VirtualBox-5.2.6-120293-SunOS.tar.gz
> $ pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.6-SunOS-amd64-r120293.pkg . all
> $ rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall
> $ sed -i /checkinstall/d SUNWvbox/pkgmap
> $ pfexec pkgadd -d . SUNWvbox
>
> That is derived from guide:
> https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox#id-72VirtualBox-NotesforinstallingVirtualBoxonHipster

Your prescription above went off without a hitch ... thanks

I do see something I'm not sure what to do about.  Once I launch the
vbox gui, and start creating new (Linux[ubuntu]) vm, at the very start
one is to enter a name, then in the `Type' box, select an OS. (In this
case `linux').

At that point the next `version' box shows `ubuntu 32'

Clicking the right drop down arrow, I see all the choices are 32 bit,
no 64 bit available.

I would expect that if the host OS was 32 bit but in this case it is a
oi-64 running in a vbox vm on a HP xw8600 also oi-64 as well.

I guess it sounds like those Russian nesting dolls of world fame.

Host M1/
  running `oi' on vm-V1/
  running linux on vm-v1a 

isainfo -b on top level hardware HOST running `oi' shows isainfo -b
 64

isainfo -b on vm-V1  running `oi' shows isainfo -b
 64

Creating a vbox vm on vm-V1 appears to only allow 32 bit.

I have not proceeded beyond creating the vm... have not yet booted
install media on it.

Did you see something like this?.

That is, your vms created on newly installed vbox can only create 32 bit OS's


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst 


On 01/24/18 15:15, Harry Putnam wrote:

Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
 writes:


I'm currently running VBox 5.2.4 on Hipster with Win-7 Pro and Debian
9.3 as guests on an HP Z400 I followed the wiki instructions.  Here
are the scripts I used:


# cat tst1
#!/bin/sh
pkgtrans VirtualBox-5.2.4-SunOS-amd64-r119785.pkg . all
rm SUNWvbox/install/checkinstall
sed -i /checkinstall/d SUNWvbox/pkgmap
pkgadd -d . SUNWvbox


Please see my most recent response to Predrag B.

The presciption you show above went off without a hitch (Thanks), but
it appears upon creating a new vm with the newly installed vbox
GUI. that it may only be capable of creating 32 bit vms/.

Do you see something like that?


Nope! I see both 32 and 64 bit in the list (will attach picture, if it 
survives).


Regards.



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Anyone: A summary of how to update to latest or recent Virtualbox on oi

2018-01-24 Thread Harry Putnam 
Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst
 writes:

Harry wrote:
>> Please see my most recent response to Predrag B.
>>
>> The presciption you show above went off without a hitch (Thanks), but
>> it appears upon creating a new vm with the newly installed vbox
>> GUI. that it may only be capable of creating 32 bit vms/.
>>
>> Do you see something like that?

Predrag Z replied:

> Nope! I see both 32 and 64 bit in the list (will attach picture, if it
> survives).

OK, I braved up and did the install on my HP xw8600 hardware.

Installing a new (5.2.6-120293) vbox on my hardware went off just great.  32 64
bit both available and my existing 7 vbox vms that have been running
on the hardware with VBox 5.0.40 are starting with no problems.

You and Reginald B have steered me right thru this ...
I was really expecting some kind of serious stumbling block.

Thank you both for the great guidance and timely responses.


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