[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 2020.10 install disk FAIL #2 !!!

[Reginald Beardsley]

 The Debian derived gparted disk did not offer any zfs FS types.

Out of curiosity I just booted FreeBSD 12.2 and messed with gpart. It does not offer "apple-zfs as an option. Aside from ZFS not being an Apple creation, it's rather perverse that in 2021 one would need to use the beta from another OS to partition a >2TB disk for OI.

>From my admin log book:
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 1-26-13 

oi_151a7

text installer limited system to 2 TB of 3 TB disk

backed up to shell and ran format which correctly detected disk

successfully labeled disk with 2 slices of 128 GB and 2.6 GB

created pools w/ zpool on both slices

relabeling 3 TB disk using OI format(1m) runs into logic errors in the partition.

solution is to do a "free hug" modify & take defaults for all slices, then rename s0
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>From there I moved the disk to my Solaris 10 u8 system which happily created the pools. I was also building an NL40 based system at the time and the log book gets a bit unclear. The s0 & s1 slices are the hallmark of my ZFS boot setup. Mirror on s0 and RAIDZ on s1. I don't think the Sol 10 instance has the 128 GB s0 slice now. As I'm pretty sure it will kernel panic if I run "format -e" and select the disk I'd rather not look.

The message here is OI was capable of doing the geometry for a >2 TB disk at oi_151_a7. So for Hipster 2020.10 to not be able to do that is a considerable regression.

Reg
     On Sunday, February 28, 2021, 09:00:17 PM CST, John D Groenveld <groenveld at acm.org> wrote:  
 
 In message <845919546.1414404.1614561339642 at mail.yahoo.com>, Reginald Beardsley
 via openindiana-discuss writes:
>Following hints from others, I used a *working* copy of gparted to put a GPT l
>abel on a 5 TB disk in advance of attempting to install OI.

I booted the FreeBSD 13 Beta installer:
<URL:https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/>
With gpart(8), I created a GPT scheme and then added an apple-zfs
partition.
Then I created an zpool named rpool with features disabled and
exported it.
# zpool create -d rpool ada0p1
# zpool export rpool

Using the OI text installer I was able to F5 to install to an existing
pool.
<URL:http://dlc.openindiana.org/>

>I took photos of the screen should anyone question this

As Josh Clulow noted, the OI text installer keeps a logfile in /tmp
which would be helpful if you're interested in providing a bug report.

John
groenveld at acm.org

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