The problem seems to be lack of manpower/UEFI expertise on the OI dev side. Which is not a strike against them; honestly the fact that OI boots at all with that small of a team and minimal (AFAIK) upstream code is nothing short of miraculous. The project just needs someone who knows UEFI in the same manner a launch company needs a rocket scientist, despite whoever else they might have.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:02 PM Jason King <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > Reply: illumos-discuss <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > Date: March 18, 2021 at 8:18:15 PM > To: illumos-discuss <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [discuss] Obstacle to GPT label boot? > > > > 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 >> >> ------------------------------------------ >> illumos: illumos-discuss >> Permalink: >> https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M54025247a9158583db3bf331 >> Delivery options: >> https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription >> > *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-M34adc953d36e654427cfe5b8 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
