On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:23 AM, <cindy.swearin...@sun.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Sorry, I missed the 1.5 TB disk/boot issue previously. > > A project is underway to provide booting for disks that are large > than 1 TB. This project is outside of a future project to provide > booting from an EFI-labeled disk. > > I agree that your best approach is to attach your second 500-GB disk > to create a mirrored root pool and save the 1.5 TB disk for another > day or another pool. You will be able to replace the 500-GB mirrored > root pool with the 1.5 TB when booting from it is supported. > > What I'm thinking is that you will be able to upgrade your root pool > with a release that supports booting from a 1.5 TB disk, then do > the disk replacement. > > Cindy > > Since I've heard differing stories over time: Is the EFI boot limitation a limitation of PC BIOS, or is it somewhere in the software stack? Or I suppose the third options is that it's a limitation of PC BIOS that can be overcome with some software hacks.
>From what I recall, itanium systems and apple systems have no issues booting from an EFI label. I would assume this may apply to sparc based systems as well since they're also running OBP (like apple). Thoughts? --Tim
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