On 05/27/09 10:36, Jan Damborsky wrote: > Hi Pallavi, > > could you please add release notes for bugs 9026 > and 6843138 to OpenSolaris 2009.06 release notes ? > > Shidokht, could you please take a look to verify if > the information captured below is correct and provide > workaround for 6843138 if one exists ? > ... > > ================================================================================== > > > bugid: 6843138 > synopsis: can not boot off a 2.2TB and zfs root > > Platforms affected: > x86 > > Description: > Due to the limitation in current implementation of GRUB which > OpenSolaris uses as boot > loader on x86 platform, OpenSolaris operating system can't be booted > from disk which > capacity exceeds 2^32 sectors or 2TB (assuming that sector size is 512 > bytes). Hi,
Since the problem depends on whether the needed data for booting falls in the region defined by the lower 32bits of capacity, I'd suggest rewording "can't be booted" to "may not be booted" I don't have a great workaround here. For a warm reboot, if we do a modunload -i 0 and then do reboot, fastreboot would have a chance in rebooting the system bypassing grub if all loaded drivers support quiesce. Thanks -shidokht > > Workaround: > * none > ================================================================================== > > >
