On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Jürgen Keil<jrgn.k...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> In short, this is a limitation of the VTOC format Solaris >> uses for disk labelling. > > This should have been fixed quite a few builds ago (b99+). > Extended VTOC should support disks sizes in the > range 1TB ... 2TB. So that a 64-bit Solaris can boot from > a SMI labeled 1.5TB disk (<2TB)... > > >> When using EFI, you shouldn't see this issue with the right >> driver support if I understand correctly. > > EFI label won't help when the 32-bit disk driver refuses to > attach to such a big disk. > > And booting from EFI labeled disks is another problem...
Half of that stuff was written a day ago. The other half is interesting and appreciated. It is always promising when Mr. Keil starts solving something :) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
