> On 19. Mar 2021, at 03:34, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev > <oi-...@openindiana.org> wrote: > > Judah has nailed the issue. > > Hipster 2020.10 will not install with a GPT/EFI label. Clearly stated 2 TB > limit in the installer. I was quite shocked. And annoyingly noisy about it :-( > > I am happy to fix things which cause me problems if I get some help in the > form of where to go look. Telling me to "use a search engine" is tantamount > to saying. "We don't like your kind." Google delights in generating a million > completely useless "hits". > > If there is a piece of Illumos code for booting from >2 TB disks that needs > to be ported over to OI, I'll do it if I can get answers to basic questions. > Complex stuff such as, "What are the source files?" Where is the canonical > repository?". > > Reg > Could you please mail screenshot about that situation in installer? rgds, toomas > > On Thursday, March 18, 2021, 08:18:59 PM CDT, Judah Richardson > <judahrichard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:11 PM Hans Rosenfeld > <rosenf...@grumpf.hope-2000.org <mailto:rosenf...@grumpf.hope-2000.org>> > 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 > > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M54025247a9158583db3bf331> > Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > illumos <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest> / illumos-discuss / > seediscussions <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> > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-...@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [discuss] Obstacle to GPT label boot?
Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:42:53 -0700
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