<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 02:31, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev <<a href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" class="">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Would someone please direct me to an explanation of why we can't boot from disk >2 TB in 2021?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# format</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Searching for disks...done</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> 0. c3t0d0 <WDC-WD4004FZWX-00GBGB0-81.H0A81-3.64TB></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> /pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@0,0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> 1. c3t1d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> /pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@1,0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> 2. c3t3d0 <WDC-WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0-01.01A01-3.64TB></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> /pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@3,0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> 3. c3t4d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> /pci@0,0/pci15d9,805@1f,2/disk@4,0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Specify disk (enter its number): ^D</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# zpool status rpool</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> pool: rpool</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> state: ONLINE</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> scan: resilvered 1,68T in 0 days 10:10:07 with 0 errors on Fri Oct 25 05:05:34 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">config:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> rpool ONLINE 0 0 0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> c3t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> c3t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> c3t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> c3t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">errors: No known data errors</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">root@beastie:/code/illumos-gate# </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I can tell, this system does boot just fine with both UEFI and BIOS firmware.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">rgds,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Hack; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">toomas</span></div></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><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=""><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=""><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=""><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=""><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=""><br class="">Reg<br class=""><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=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>