<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19. Mar 2021, at 21:06, Judah Richardson <<a href="mailto:judahrichardson@gmail.com" class="">judahrichardson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:14 PM Toomas Soome <<a href="mailto:tsoome@me.com" class="">tsoome@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19. Mar 2021, at 16:21, Judah Richardson <<a href="mailto:judahrichardson@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">judahrichardson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Thanks Toomas. A few questions about that:</div><div class=""><ol class=""><li class="">Which OI version was originally installed? That would help me pinpoint where OI UEFI support landed</li></ol></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T97536ca6fe4642cf-M727f3d9b380cd0b011197de1/headsup-or-something" target="_blank" class="">https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T97536ca6fe4642cf-M727f3d9b380cd0b011197de1/headsup-or-something</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So 2019.05 should have those bits already.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class="">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.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>What was the problem?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>rgds,</div><div>toomas</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><ol start="2" class=""><li class="">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</li></ol><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">my host is a bit old already, it is Supermicro X10SAE with <span style="font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU E3-1246 v3 @ 3.50GHz. It is doing ok for my needs (illumos dev and build host).</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="">Thanks for the info!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">rgds,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">toomas</span></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:18 AM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss <<a href="mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org" target="_blank" class="">openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br class=""><br class="">> On 19. Mar 2021, at 02:31, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev <<a href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" target="_blank" class="">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Would someone please direct me to an explanation of why we can't boot from disk >2 TB in 2021?<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# format<br class="">Searching for disks...done<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:<br class=""> 0. c3t0d0 <WDC-WD4004FZWX-00GBGB0-81.H0A81-3.64TB><br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@0,0<br class=""> 1. c3t1d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB><br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@1,0<br class=""> 2. c3t3d0 <WDC-WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0-01.01A01-3.64TB><br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@3,0<br class=""> 3. c3t4d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB><br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>/pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@4,0<br class="">Specify disk (enter its number): ^D<br class="">root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# zpool status rpool<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pool: rpool<br class=""> state: ONLINE<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>scan: resilvered 1,68T in 0 days 10:10:07 with 0 errors on Fri Oct 25 05:05:34 2019<br class="">config:<br class=""><br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rpool ONLINE 0 0 0<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>c3t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>c3t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0<br class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>c3t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0<br class=""><br class="">errors: No known data errors<br class="">root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate#<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">I can tell, this system does boot just fine with both UEFI and BIOS firmware.<br class=""><br class="">rgds,<br class="">toomas<br class=""><br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> 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.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> 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.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> 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.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> 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.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> So please, point me at any known issues. For workstations the s0 root pool and s1 export pool works really well.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> Reg<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> 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.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">openindiana-discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org" target="_blank" class="">openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss</a></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>