<div>                Judah has nailed the issue.<br><br>Hipster 2020.10 will not install  with  a GPT/EFI label.   Clearly stated 2 TB limit in the installer.  I was quite shocked.  And annoyingly noisy about it :-(<br><br>I am happy to fix things which cause me problems if I get some help in the form of where to go look.  Telling me to "use a search engine" is tantamount to saying. "We don't like your kind."  Google delights in generating a million completely useless "hits".<br><br>If there is a piece of Illumos code for booting from >2 TB disks that needs to be ported over to OI,  I'll do it if I can get answers to basic questions.  Complex stuff such as, "What are the source files?"  Where is the canonical repository?".   <br><br>Reg<br><br><br>            </div>            <div class="yahoo_quoted" style="margin:10px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #ccc;padding-left:1ex;">                        <div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">                                <div>                    On Thursday, March 18, 2021, 08:18:59 PM CDT, Judah Richardson <judahrichardson@gmail.com> wrote:                </div>                <div><br></div>                <div><br></div>                <div><div id="yiv4187083664"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv4187083664gmail_quote"><div class="yiv4187083664gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:11 PM Hans Rosenfeld <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org">rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv4187083664gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;">On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:31:08AM +0000, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss wrote:<br clear="none">> Would someone please direct me to an explanation  of why we can't boot<br clear="none">> from disk >2 TB in 2021?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Have you tried? What problems did you run into?<br clear="none"></blockquote><div>I do believe he was referring to OI specifically. AFAIK, OI itself (not the live USB) has long had EFI boot issues, while other Illumos distributions such as OmniOS don't.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Unless I'm mistaken, the issue has been repeatedly paved over in great detail on the OI mailing list. <br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="yiv4187083664gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><br clear="none">illumos has had support for booting from disks > 2TB for a few years<br clear="none">now, both in our ancient grub boot loader and of course also in the new<br clear="none">loader that Toomas Soome ported from FreeBSD a few years ago.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hans<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">%SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, The operating system has been overthrown<br clear="none"><br clear="none">------------------------------------------<br clear="none">illumos: illumos-discuss<br clear="none">Permalink: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M54025247a9158583db3bf331">https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M54025247a9158583db3bf331</a><br clear="none">Delivery options: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription">https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription</a><br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div></div><div><div id="yiv4187083664topicbox-footer" style="margin:10px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #ddd;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,.15);padding:7px 0;"><strong><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:none;">illumos</a></strong>  / illumos-discuss / see<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss">discussions</a>  +<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members">participants</a>  +<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription">delivery options</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M6e96c7cf7a69f3c52befb69a" style="float:right;">Permalink</a></div><div class="yiv4187083664yqt1625341515" id="yiv4187083664yqtfd78805"></div></div></div></div>            </div>                </div>