IIRC the DE would fail to start on UEFI boot and the display would just show a blinking cursor. This is how <https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/wiki/How-to-Install-OpenIndiana> I got OI installed and booting (albeit booting in legacy mode.)
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:38 PM Toomas Soome <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 19. Mar 2021, at 21:06, Judah Richardson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:14 PM Toomas Soome <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 19. Mar 2021, at 16:21, Judah Richardson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks Toomas. A few questions about that: >> >> 1. Which OI version was originally installed? That would help me >> pinpoint where OI UEFI support landed >> >> >> That is tricky:D because it was installed before I wrote UEFI support for >> illumos:D (technically it is still not complete, but thats another story). >> >> I was thinking, what point in time to count for this landing - because we >> did add it step by step, but I think this headsup should be the mark: >> >> >> https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T97536ca6fe4642cf-M727f3d9b380cd0b011197de1/headsup-or-something >> >> So 2019.05 should have those bits already. >> > OK. Welp, didn't work for me when I tried installing the latest Hipster in > 2020, but the target disk was a 128 GB SSD so not really an issue. > > > > What was the problem? > > rgds, > toomas > > > >> >> >> 1. What hardware is this on? If it's a prebuilt PC brand and model >> name would be great. If you built the PC yourself, I'd appreciate the >> brand >> and model of the motherboard >> >> >> >> my host is a bit old already, it is Supermicro X10SAE with Intel(r) >> Xeon(r) CPU E3-1246 v3 @ 3.50GHz. It is doing ok for my needs (illumos dev >> and build host). >> > Thanks for the info! > >> >> rgds, >> toomas >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:18 AM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> > On 19. Mar 2021, at 02:31, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> > >>> > Would someone please direct me to an explanation of why we can't boot >>> from disk >2 TB in 2021? >>> >>> >>> root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# format >>> Searching for disks...done >>> >>> >>> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: >>> 0. c3t0d0 <WDC-WD4004FZWX-00GBGB0-81.H0A81-3.64TB> >>> /pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@0,0 >>> 1. c3t1d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB> >>> /pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@1,0 >>> 2. c3t3d0 <WDC-WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0-01.01A01-3.64TB> >>> /pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@3,0 >>> 3. c3t4d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB> >>> /pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@4,0 >>> Specify disk (enter its number): ^D >>> root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# zpool status rpool >>> pool: rpool >>> state: ONLINE >>> scan: resilvered 1,68T in 0 days 10:10:07 with 0 errors on Fri Oct 25 >>> 05:05:34 2019 >>> config: >>> >>> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM >>> rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 >>> raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >>> c3t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >>> c3t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >>> c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >>> c3t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 >>> >>> errors: No known data errors >>> root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# >>> >>> I can tell, this system does boot just fine with both UEFI and BIOS >>> firmware. >>> >>> rgds, >>> toomas >>> >>> > >>> > It's very hard for me to see a significant obstacle to reading an x86 >>> MBR that loads code that will then boot from GPT label disks. >>> > >>> > I'm rebuilding my Sol 10 u8 system with my spare 2 TB disk. I'd like >>> to replace the 3x 2 TB disk RAIDZ1 setup with a 4-5x disk RAIDZ2 using 4 >>> TB disks using my s0 & s1 configuration. >>> > >>> > I must assume that the Illumos market is dominated by customers who >>> don't care about having a few small SMI labeled boot disks in a farm of >>> large GPT labeled disks. But for a 7 SATA port system, that's not very >>> viable. >>> > >>> > Linux, MS and BSD can do it, so we should be able to do it also. It's >>> become enough of a personal nuisance that I'm willing to fix it if I get a >>> modest level of cooperation. >>> > >>> > So please, point me at any known issues. For workstations the s0 root >>> pool and s1 export pool works really well. >>> > >>> > Reg >>> > >>> > BTW After a DIMM shuffle, "format -e" and scrubs no longer dump core >>> on u8. Now X goes off into la-la land :-( Clearly I need new DIMMS. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openindiana-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M90f590131fd052bd6ac44fa2 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
