On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 10:02 AM Kalle Anka via openindiana-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> I am a long time Solaris user that tried out Linux for a couple of years, > namely Ubuntu LTS. Alas, the Ubuntu updates caused numerous problems, in > some cases causing a reinstall. I've been running Ubuntu on the same machine since 18.10, updating to each release in-place, with no issues. Currently on 20.10. An excellent Debian(-based) OS stability primer is here <https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian>. If you follow that and ask questions at AskUbuntu and Reddit you shouldn't have showstopper problems. > At the end I switched to Ubuntu 2020.10 hoping it would be more stable. It > was not. > > Another problem is that OpenZFS v0.8.4 renders Solaris 11.3 disks unusable. Disappointing, but not unexpected given that Solaris ZFS and OpenZFS are 2 different and independent ZFS implementations. > Try this: > -Create a ZFS disk in Solaris 11.3 (using zpool version 28, and zfs > version 5) > -Import the disk into Ubuntu 2020.10 using OpenZFS v0.8.4 > -Copy data to the zpool using Linux zfs send recv > -Import the zpool back into Solaris 11.3 - This will fail. Solaris says > the disk is UNAVAIL and I need to use a backup to restore data. > So if you use OpenZFS to import a zpool, chances are you cannot import the > disk back into Solaris. > > Because of all these problems I have now tried the OpenIndiana 2020.10 > LiveDVD and I liked it. The splash screen says it is OI "2020.04". It maybe > should be changed to "2020.10"? Before I migrate off Linux to OI, I have > some questions I hope I can get help with? > 1) I boot Win10 which is installed using UEFI. According the OI manual, OI > does not support UEFI. > > http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/getting-started/#booting-the-hipster-installer > > So I should not install BIOS OI and UEFI W10 for dualbooting on the same > disk. I learned this the hard way. I had a Win10 and Solaris 11.2 dual > booting install, on the same disk using BIOS, i.e. MBR disk. Then an W10 > update silently changed the disk to UEFI (GPT disk), and Solaris 11.2 was > still on MBR. So I could boot W10, but not boot Solaris. It took me a long > time to figure out why Solaris would not boot. I had to reinstall Solaris > using UEFI. > I think dual booting creates far more problems than it solves, and avoid it my personal setups. I definitely do not think having dual booting an MBR and UEFI OS is a good idea. > > To solve my problem of BIOS os and UEFI os, I wonder if this might work: I > remove all disks except one, and install Win10 using UEFI. Then I remove > all disks, and insert another disk to which I install BIOS OpenIndiana. > Then I insert all disks, and when I boot my PC, I choose which OS to boot > from the disk boot menu by pressing F11. Do you think this could be a way > to have both BIOS OpenIndiana and UEFI Win10 on my PC, but on different > disks? I have read that you should not install BIOS and UEFI oses on the > same PC, Sounds like you just answered your own question :P even on the different disks - but I dont know why. I cannot find > information on this. But if I choose the different disks to boot in the > boot menu, this could work? Anyone know? > Such a setup is neither robust nor reliable, nor were PC BIOSes engineered or tested for it. You're welcome to try it, but you'll be in unsupported waters. > > (BTW, I have a WARNING! If you boot Win10 install usb and only look at the > different disks in your PC, i.e. check the sizes of the disks, and then > exit without doing anything - this will mess up your ZFS disks. W10 install > software will mess up disks that are not NTFS. ZFS is something new, so > Win10 install software will overwrite the ZFS disks even scanning the ZFS > disks. If you do get your ZFS disks messed up this way, I have heard that > you can try to import the zpool and scrub it, and it might solve this mess. > Another way to solve this problem, is to remove all non ntfs disks from > your system before installing Win10). > See my previous warning about dual booting. I would never expose a ZFS disk to Windows and generally do not expose disks to OSes that lack 1st party support the filesystems on them. It's easy and affordable enough to get a used, good condition Core 2nd gen or later x86-64 desktop on my end that dual booting just isn't something I have to futz with. > > 2) Does OI support Sunray? (Solaris 11.4 does not support Sunray) > > 3) Graphics. I have a Geforce GTX 1070 Ti. On a UEFI installed Solaris > 11.3, it is not possible to install the latest Nvidia 1070 Ti driver > because the driver explicitly requires a BIOS Solaris installation. To > install GTX 1070 Ti, you must install Solaris 11.3 as BIOS, and not UEFI. > If you have UEFI, there are no GTX 1070 Ti driver at all. You need to use > VESA driver. > > The GTX 1070 Ti driver is certified for Solaris, but can the GTX 1070 Ti > driver be installed on OI, as OI is a Solarish derivative? I wouldn't expect that to be the case as Solaris and Illumos have diverged significantly since Illumos continued OpenSolaris. > This is the latest Nvidia driver: > https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/127153/en-us > > 4) In the event that OI supports UEFI, I can install both Win10 and OI on > my system without problems. However, in that case I stuck with the VESA OI > driver. Because Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti driver only installs on BIOS Solaris. To > solve this problem, can I still install OI as BIOS, and Win10 as UEFI as > outlined in point 1) above? And this would give me Nvidia driver for GTX > 1070 Ti? > See previous dual booting warning. > > 5) I hope there is a mpt sas driver, because there was one in Solaris > 11.3. Can anyone confirm? I have this LSI2008 SAS card for my JBOD raidz3 I > would like to use. > Don't know. > > 6) Virtualbox, does it work fine on OI? Is it problematic? > I don't use it, but I've seen some threads about it. 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