On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:11 PM Hans Rosenfeld <
[email protected]> 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

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