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

[Reginald Beardsley]

--- On Mon, 1/28/13, Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> From: Dave Miner <dminer at opensolaris.org>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 install on 4k sector disk
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Monday, January 28, 2013, 9:47 AM
> 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.

My understanding is that it is not possible to boot from an EFI labeled disk.  Has that changed?  In a way it's moot as I just got the UPS tracking info for 3x2 TB disks.  But the info might help someone else.  

The Oracle docs I was pointed to were very specific that you couldn't have a VTOC label larger than 2 TB and couldn't boot from an EFI label.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/819-2723/disksconcepts-14/index.html

The real issue I had w/ the current OI installer is not allowing the use of existing slices.

Reg