[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD => 2TB

[Rich]

Most BIOSes really don't like trying to boot to things beyond a
certain threshold into the drive [who even bothers implementing full
LBA support, anyway...]

Make a traditional MBR partition table and take a 100GB primary
partition for root (or 64 GB or 32 or something smaller) - make it
using gparted having cleared the EFI bits if necessary.

I believe OI can be convinced to boot from said partition and not
whole-disk, though I've not tried it.

Once you're in the OS, you should be able to address the rest of the
drive, though not as one contiguous storage blob [I'd bet a dollar if
you tried concatenating the zpool, nothing sane would happen].

It's also possible that your problem is that the 2T drive is doing
SATA 3 and something is buggy in how OI is handling the SATA 3
(whereas the 250GB drive is likely SATA 1/2).

- Rich

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
<openindiana at nedharvey.com> wrote:
> To at least summarize your problem, without all the distracting irrelevant details and tangents of the OP and this thread in general...  Even if I don't have an answer for you ...
>
> When you boot the OI installer DVD, with a 2TB drive attached, OI simply cannot see the disk.
> When you boot the same system, with a 250G disk attached, OI installs just fine.  So at least this confirms OI can use the SATA controller (or whatever).  It suggests that the problem is the system can't handle drive of 2TB size...
> However, you can install (what did you say, centos and ubuntu?) some other OS onto the 2TB drive, just fine.
>
> So what gives?  Is it a driver problem, a hardware compatibility problem, or what?  And can anything be done about it?
>
> My only suggestion is to check the drive mode.  I would guess you want AHCI, and I would guess it already is in AHCI mode, so I'm guessing this suggestion is no help.
>
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