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

[Mirko Fluher]

On 01/31/13 11:27 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:

> What model disk?
Seagate 2TB SATA3

> I'm about to do battle w/ installing OI_151a7 on 4k sector 2 TB Seagate disks in an HP N40L.
> You can't boot OI from disks over 2 TB as they require an EFI label. Solaris 11.1 is reported
> to have fixed the problem, but even the Oracle doc's have not caught up to the change.
>
> I can see the disks w/ format, but have not yet attempted to install.
> I ran a surface analysis first since I'm building a file server w/ 3 disks.  Surface analysis
> on a 2 TB disk takes about 12 hours to run.
>
> Did you run format(1m) manually?

I just used the LiveDVD 'oi-dev-151a7-live'  ... and it just told me it 
couldn't see the HD.

>
> I don't know what the current situation is, but years ago I installed FreeBSD, Linux&  Solaris on the same disk.  It took probably a dozen install attempts to figure out.  Ultimately I had to alter the fdisk partition type ID, install the next OS, and then change it back.  There was also a particular order of install required because one of the installers was actively hostile to the others.  I don't recall which though.
>
> IIRC (it was 10+ years ago) the main issue was Linux swap used the same fdisk partition ID as Solaris.
>
> After that I switched to using removable drive caddies.  My current recommendation for laptops is to install to USB drives, but the 4k sector problem is making that difficult. But for a desktop system, the caddies are the way to go.

this is basically what I am doing at the moment ... and until OI can see 
my 2TB and partitions ...   so at the moment is OI on a good old 250g  :)
Cheers,