--- On Mon, 1/28/13, Dave Miner <dmi...@opensolaris.org> wrote:
> From: Dave Miner <dmi...@opensolaris.org> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 install on 4k sector disk > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Monday, January 28, 2013, 9:47 AM > On 01/26/13 09:44, Jan Owoc wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Reginald > Beardsley<pulask...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> I'm trying to install on a 3 TB HGST disk which > reports 512 byte sectors using the text installer. The > system is an HP N40L and is intended to be a ZFS based NFS > server for a Solaris 10 workstation. > >> > >> format(1m) correctly sees the size of the disk and > I'm able to create a 128 GB slice for a root pool and the > rest (2.6 TB) for the eventual RAIDZ pool. > >> > >> However, the installer keeps telling me that I > can't use more than 2 TB. > >> > >> I can't find anything about installing onto 4K > sector disks in the wiki or elsewhere. > > > > I'm not aware of OpenIndiana-specific documentation to > this problem, > > but I recall reading that both the most recent > OpenSolaris as well as > > the current Solaris 11 can't be installed on > disks>2TB. It had > > something to do with booting off a disk with a GPT > label. > > > > Solaris 11.1 added the capability to fully utilize >2 TB > disks for the > root pool. The installer version that OI is using > doesn't have any of > that support. My understanding is that it is not possible to boot from an EFI labeled disk. Has that changed? In a way it's moot as I just got the UPS tracking info for 3x2 TB disks. But the info might help someone else. The Oracle docs I was pointed to were very specific that you couldn't have a VTOC label larger than 2 TB and couldn't boot from an EFI label. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/819-2723/disksconcepts-14/index.html The real issue I had w/ the current OI installer is not allowing the use of existing slices. Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss