Is it possibly an installer issue with how the main zpool (e.g. rpool) is created? I don’t think the bootloader in OmniOS (or SmartOS booting off a zpool) are any different than what’s in OI, so that’s the only thing I can think of.
From: Judah Richardson <judahrichard...@gmail.com> <judahrichard...@gmail.com> Reply: illumos-discuss <discuss@lists.illumos.org> <discuss@lists.illumos.org> Date: March 18, 2021 at 8:18:15 PM To: illumos-discuss <discuss@lists.illumos.org> <discuss@lists.illumos.org> Subject: Re: [discuss] Obstacle to GPT label boot? On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:11 PM Hans Rosenfeld < rosenf...@grumpf.hope-2000.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:31:08AM +0000, Reginald Beardsley via > illumos-discuss wrote: > > Would someone please direct me to an explanation of why we can't boot > > from disk >2 TB in 2021? > > Have you tried? What problems did you run into? > I do believe he was referring to OI specifically. AFAIK, OI itself (not the live USB) has long had EFI boot issues, while other Illumos distributions such as OmniOS don't. Unless I'm mistaken, the issue has been repeatedly paved over in great detail on the OI mailing list. > > illumos has had support for booting from disks > 2TB for a few years > now, both in our ancient grub boot loader and of course also in the new > loader that Toomas Soome ported from FreeBSD a few years ago. > > Hans > > -- > %SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, The operating system has been overthrown *illumos <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest>* / illumos-discuss / see discussions <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + participants <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + delivery options <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> Permalink <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M6e96c7cf7a69f3c52befb69a> ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M4c7677943d124218daefa850 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
