That's very nice, Jim. I'll work on putting it up today.
Thank you, Bryan On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:50:04 +0200 Jim Klimov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-08-30 22:07, Jean-Pierre wrote: > > Jim Klimov wrote: > >> On 2013-08-30 19:33, Jean-Pierre wrote: > >>> FIXME : The Windows wording for partition is volume and the OpenIndiana > >>> one is slice. > >> > >> I did not read it all (yet) but this here is a bit of misunderstanding > >> that I'd like to correct early on. Maybe just simplification for people > >> new to this all, but not correct still. > > [...] > >> > >> So, long story short, "The OpenIndiana wording for partition is slice" > >> is not a correct statement, and may mislead readers in the future :) > > > > I was aware of differences of concepts between the systems, > > and the need for some introductory precautions, so I > > marked the sentence as FIXME. You also raise an alarm on GPT > > partitions and LVM both of which should probably be excluded > > from the procedure (I have no personal experience about them). > > > > Maybe you can suggest an introduction, avoiding unnecessary > > details ? > > I am not really a good author (yet) on short meaningful texts, > as I try to detail everything so that even a newbie can speed > up to understanding the "how" and "why" of systems to administer. > > That said, I can try :) > > --- > > This article explains some approaches to multi-booting OpenIndiana > residing along with some other operating systems on the same hard > disk (or SSD). First, a few words about the limitations that you > should be aware of. > > OpenIndiana currently supports only booting from disks with legacy > MBR partitioning, which among other things limits the boot drives > to 2Tb and less. On many systems this is a moderate limitation, > because it is recommended to keep the OS (mirror) separately from > data/zone pool, frequently stored on a larger set of larger drives. > > UNCERTAIN: OpenIndiana requires(?) that its MBR partition is among > the "primary" four partitions (and if your set of operating systems > needs more partitions, at least for data volumes, you might require > to use one of these four to define an "extended" partition - a large > container spanning the "rest of the disk", usually after a contiguous > space divided among the remaining three primary partitions; note below > about tricks for systems with over 9 partitions). > > While OI lays out a "slice table" in its partition, and actually > uses one of these slices (the only one by default, covering most > of the partition) for the ZFS rpool, it is also picky in that a > drive should not contain several MBR partitions marked with Solaris > aka type 0x82 (the number is also used by default for Linux swap > partitions). > > OpenIndiana uses a special branch of GRUB with ZFS support and may > lack direct support of newer filesystem and volume layouts relevant > for other operating systems, though it can chainload Windows and can > directly load Linux kernel and initrd miniroot files from partitions > formatted as ext2/ext3 (however it can not, for example, interpret > partitions with Linux LVM - containers of volumes with filesystems > inside). > > Now that we've covered what you can not do, let's see what you *can* > do, and *how* you can do it.... > > --- > > Then your and/or Bryan's article goes on to detail multi-booting... > > I don't want to hijack his page which as of now specifically regards > multiboot with Windows, and don't really have time available now to > combine and polish the texts; but if any of you guys feel like making > a page with consistent style and content on this matter - feel free > to use or adapt this exprompto introduction, if you like it ;) > > HTH, > //Jim Klimov > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Bryan N Iotti +39 366 3708436 [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
