> On 19. Mar 2021, at 21:06, Judah Richardson <judahrichard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:14 PM Toomas Soome <tso...@me.com > <mailto:tso...@me.com>> wrote: > > >> On 19. Mar 2021, at 16:21, Judah Richardson <judahrichard...@gmail.com >> <mailto:judahrichard...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Thanks Toomas. A few questions about that: >> 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 > > <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 > > >> 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 >> <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> <mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org>> wrote: >> >> >> > On 19. Mar 2021, at 02:31, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev >> > <oi-...@openindiana.org <mailto: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 >> <mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> >> https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> <https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss> _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] Obstacle to GPT label boot?
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