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

[Dave Miner]

On 01/29/13 06:56, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-01-28 19:54, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
>> 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
>
> Given the statement that Oracle managed to change something in this
> regard in recent Solaris, I wonder what it was? Ditch the VTOC-only
> support in installer/GRUB/rpool import and mount, and allow use of
> plain GPT partitions?
>

Yes, the boot loader was changed to GRUB2, and support for EFI 
partitions was added to the boot and installation infrastructure.

Dave