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

[Jim Klimov]

Well, I'm still puzzled why OI installer and/or gparted won't show you
any info about the drive, however, your screenshot does tell a story:

It seems the disk is laid out in MBR partitioning after all, however,
it has all 4 primary partitions assigned (including one that holds the
extended partition /dev/sda2 and a further extended /dev/sda5 in it).

Since /dev/sda2 is as small as /dev/sda5 and only addresses the end
of your disk, there are no more possible partitions to address the
900Gb you left for future.

The solution in your case might be to extend or recreate /dev/sda2
to cover the whole space after the first 3 partitions. I am not sure
however if OI/Solaris SMI label can reside in an extended partition
or if it requires one of the primary ones.

On 2013-02-02 04:28, Mirko Fluher wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 13:40 +0100, Jim Klimov wrote:
>> On 2013-02-01 02:22, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Or, as I suggested, check that other OSes did not layout this disk
>> as GPT and thus clobbered it for non-GPT usage - as for installer.
>
> This could be where the problem is ...
> I didn't want to use the entire 2TB for a single system ... so I grabbed
> gparted and partitioned the disk with 3x 300g partitions and left the
> rest untouched.
>
> I then installed Linux Ubtuntu 12.10 in the first partition sda1 and
> Centos6.2 in the second ... which became sda3 ... sda4 is blank and was
> going to be for OpenIndiana ...
> see pics attached.
> When I loaded OI from liveDVD and proceeded to install, it simply could
> not see the HD ... the gparted on liveDVD could not see the
> partitions ...
>
> I have decided to just forget about 2TB HD & OI..., and installed OI on
> a separate 500G ... happy with that.
> Thanks for all the replies.