Would someone please direct me to an explanation of why we can't boot from disk >2 TB in 2021?
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
