[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 install on 4k sector disk

[Dave Miner]

On 01/26/13 09:44, Jan Owoc wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Reginald Beardsley<pulaskite at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> I'm trying to install on a 3 TB HGST disk which reports 512 byte sectors using the text installer. The system is an HP N40L and is intended to be a ZFS based NFS server for a Solaris 10 workstation.
>>
>> format(1m) correctly sees the size of the disk and I'm able to create a 128 GB slice for a root pool and the rest (2.6 TB) for the eventual RAIDZ pool.
>>
>> However, the installer keeps telling me that I can't use more than 2 TB.
>>
>> I can't find anything about installing onto 4K sector disks in the wiki or elsewhere.
>
> I'm not aware of OpenIndiana-specific documentation to this problem,
> but I recall reading that both the most recent OpenSolaris as well as
> the current Solaris 11 can't be installed on disks>2TB. It had
> something to do with booting off a disk with a GPT label.
>

Solaris 11.1 added the capability to fully utilize >2 TB disks for the 
root pool.  The installer version that OI is using doesn't have any of 
that support.

Dave