Jürgen Keil wrote:
In short, this is a limitation of the VTOC format Solaris
uses for disk labelling.
This should have been fixed quite a few builds ago (b99+).
I was respond to the 32-bit case, which as you noted, remains unfixed.
I don't yet know or understand why the 32-bit case could not be fixed,
but the 64-bit case could be; I suspect kernel data structure types are
to blame?
Extended VTOC should support disks sizes in the
range 1TB ... 2TB. So that a 64-bit Solaris can boot from
a SMI labeled 1.5TB disk (<2TB)...
...
When using EFI, you shouldn't see this issue with the right
driver support if I understand correctly.
EFI label won't help when the 32-bit disk driver refuses to
attach to such a big disk.
Right, which I mentioned earlier.
And booting from EFI labeled disks is another problem...
Depends on the OS and computer. I know a certain laptop computer
manufacturer that uses EFI for their OS, disks, etc. without issue...
Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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