[oi-dev] Obstacle to GPT label boot?

Marcel Telka marcel at telka.sk
Fri Mar 19 07:53:02 UTC 2021


On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 09:34:01AM +0200, Toomas Soome wrote:

[...snip...]

Thanks for all those commands and references!


> To install on slice, you would need to select GPT partitioning and
> *not* select whole disk setup. However, I have not used OI installer
> for a long time, therefore I can not recall what exactly are on those
> screens:D Also it is very likely, some improvements can be made there
> (like for >2TB disks we should only offer GPT).

IIRC, this is not possible with Hipster 2020.10 installer.

> Yes, this BIOS does see all 4 disks, therefore I can boot from this
> rpool. We have been able to do this since loader was integrated.. hm,
> log is telling…

Then it must be just my stupid BIOS that does not allow me to boot from
NVMe when I try legacy BIOS boot :-(.


Thanks.

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