<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 03:34, 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=""> Judah has nailed the issue.<br class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">Reg<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Could you please mail screenshot about that situation in installer? </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=""><br class=""> </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;" class=""> <div class=""> On Thursday, March 18, 2021, 08:18:59 PM CDT, Judah Richardson <<a href="mailto:judahrichardson@gmail.com" class="">judahrichardson@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div> <div class=""><br class=""></div> <div class=""><br class=""></div> <div class=""><div id="yiv4187083664" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><br clear="none" class=""><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" class="">rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class=""></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" class="">> Would someone please direct me to an explanation of why we can't boot<br clear="none" class="">> from disk >2 TB in 2021?<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">Have you tried? What problems did you run into?<br clear="none" class=""></blockquote><div class="">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 class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">Unless I'm mistaken, the issue has been repeatedly paved over in great detail on the OI mailing list. <br clear="none" class=""></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" class="">illumos has had support for booting from disks > 2TB for a few years<br clear="none" class="">now, both in our ancient grub boot loader and of course also in the new<br clear="none" class="">loader that Toomas Soome ported from FreeBSD a few years ago.<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">Hans<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">-- <br clear="none" class="">%SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, The operating system has been overthrown<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">------------------------------------------<br clear="none" class="">illumos: illumos-discuss<br clear="none" class="">Permalink: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M54025247a9158583db3bf331" class="">https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M54025247a9158583db3bf331</a><br clear="none" class="">Delivery options: <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription" class="">https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription</a><br clear="none" class=""></blockquote></div></div></div><div class=""><div id="yiv4187083664topicbox-footer" style="margin:10px 0 0;border-top:1px solid #ddd;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,.15);padding:7px 0;" class=""><strong class=""><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest" style="color:inherit;text-decoration:none;" class="">illumos</a></strong> / illumos-discuss / see<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss" class="">discussions</a> +<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members" class="">participants</a> +<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription" class="">delivery options</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T04ff6364a70ba334-M6e96c7cf7a69f3c52befb69a" style="float:right;" class="">Permalink</a></div><div class="yiv4187083664yqt1625341515" id="yiv4187083664yqtfd78805"></div></div></div></div> </div> </div>_______________________________________________<br class="">oi-dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" class="">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a><br class="">https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>