On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:28 PM Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss < [email protected]> wrote:
> I can do this if someone will point me in the right direction. > Earlier in the thread Joshua Clulow said he did that a while back ... maybe it wasn't the direction you wanted, but when in a new (to you) project it might be best to go in the direction those who know the lay of the land point you to until you learn enough to make your own direction. But I'd suggest looking at what he said. > I'm about to start a bespoke CS course via iPad for the widow and eldest > daughter of a friend from grad school at Austin who was so unspeakably rude > as to die of liver cancer last spring. That will fork into a separate > Arduino based embedded programming course for his 13 year old youngest son > after a few sessions. But I want the 13 year old to understand how EE and > CS connect > > I want to start at 1950's systems so the Arduino is quite relevant at the > start. > > Reg > > > On Thursday, March 18, 2021, 10:15:25 PM CDT, Judah Richardson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 <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-M67d47963f077cdb9c031d571> ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M3b2aceda1be909229f00ee47 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
