[OpenIndiana-discuss] Success at last!

[Reginald Beardsley]

I got the N40L built w/ OI_151a7 using the LiveCD.  Jim's suggestion of a small MBR partition was the key.  

It's a messy process though.  I've got a page on the wiki under storage that sort of describes the process.  I'll fill in more detail later. I'm a bit nervous that I've missed a detail.  I got beat up pretty badly by issues introduced by the 4k sectors and various rabbit holes making all the number match.  The cylinders on the ST2000DM001 are not multiples of 4k.  That doesn't seem to matter, but it wasted a lot of time.

There's a real need for something simpler for installing a NAS w/ a regular GUI console.  I like my text windows.

I created a 3x30 GB mirrored rpool and a 3 disk RAIDZ dpool.  I've got 3.5 TB available in the RAIDZ pool and a 64 GB write of /dev/zero reported 199 MB/s.  It even boots if I remove a disk w/o having to hit F10, so the N40L BIOS is not completely hopeless.

Thanks a lot for all the help and guidance.  Now to get my head around writing bug reports on format(1m) and fmthard(1m) and possibly some other things.

Have Fun!
Reg