Thanks Toomas. A few questions about that: 1. Which OI version was originally installed? That would help me pinpoint where OI UEFI support landed 2. 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
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:18 AM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > > > > On 19. Mar 2021, at 02:31, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev < > oi-...@openindiana.org> 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 > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss