<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi John,</div><div>Are you using a GPT partition table? Also, are you on x86 or SPARC?</div><div><br></div><div>I just noticed this on Solaris documentation:</div><div>- <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E28980/partsys.html">https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E28980/partsys.html</a> (backup link: <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E69250/app-panels.html">https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E69250/app-panels.html</a> )</div><div><br></div><div>which say,</div><div>> If the disk contains existing GPT partitions, the GPT partitions are displayed. Up to seven GPT partitions are supported. You can create one or more Solaris partitions during the installation, but you must choose one Solaris partition as the installation target. If there are multiple, existing Solaris GPT partitions, the first suitable Solaris GPT partition will be chosen by default as the installation target.</div><br><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Best!</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__MailAutoSig"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Roboto">Atiq</span></a></p></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM John D Groenveld via oi-dev <<a href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In message <<a href="mailto:CABC65rN6C2FwKs%2BmiCtnGQK3-Mm3VaDZzbnwfA7npL6TuYCKKw@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CABC65rN6C2FwKs+miCtnGQK3-Mm3VaDZzbnwfA7npL6TuYCKKw@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>
, Atiq Rahman writes:<br>
>*zpool lists pool from unavailable GPT Partition/Slice:*<br>
>When my solaris/illumos partition is 8 as the number as listed on parted,<br>
>the OI live image format etc tools cannot find it anymore even though<br>
>parted lists it fine (and number on parted output becomes greater than 7,<br>
>s7 for example won't work with the tools, format won't show the slice)<br>
<br>
I am unable to reproduce on OI:<br>
# zpool status<br>
pool: rpool<br>
state: ONLINE<br>
scan: none requested<br>
config:<br>
<br>
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM<br>
rpool ONLINE 0 0 0<br>
c2t0d0s9 ONLINE 0 0 0<br>
<br>
errors: No known data errors<br>
<br>
What does prtvtoc(8) report for your partition table?<br>
<URL:<a href="https://illumos.org/man/8/prtvtoc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://illumos.org/man/8/prtvtoc</a>><br>
<br>
John<br>
<a href="mailto:groeneld@acm.org" target="_blank">groeneld@acm.org</a><br>
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