On 2013-01-26 17:29, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
Again, in the above documentation it says that the label on the root disk *must* be SMI, and therefore cannot be EFI. Again, work may have been done since Solaris 10, but I'm not aware of OI-specific documentation of this problem.
FWIW, I read that EFI/GPT labels have a compatibility mode to SMI/MBR tables, allowing to present (part of) the lower 2Tb as a legacy MBR, and this was specifically a mode to allow booting older Windows and such from newer huge disks. It may be worthwhile to research whether you can trick the OS, GRUB, ZFS and the installer into thinking it has an MBR-partitioned disk with a Solaris partition and slices dedicated to the rpool (further mirrored), and then use the rest of the disk as another GPT partition with a component of a data pool (further raidz1?) In fact, it would suffice if you can trick ZFS, OS and GRUB into this partitioning setup. An uncooperating installer can be worked around by just cpio'ing the Live distro environment to an rpool you'd create manually, see Wiki: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Advanced+-+Manual+installation+of+OpenIndiana+from+LiveCD+media Whether such trickery ultimately works or not - please let us know ;) //Jim _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
