[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] [discuss] Obstacle to GPT label boot?

[Toomas Soome]

> On 19. Mar 2021, at 03:34, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev <oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
> Judah has nailed the issue.
> 
> Hipster 2020.10 will not install with a GPT/EFI label. Clearly stated 2 TB limit in the installer. I was quite shocked. And annoyingly noisy about it :-(
> 
> I am happy to fix things which cause me problems if I get some help in the form of where to go look. Telling me to "use a search engine" is tantamount to saying. "We don't like your kind." Google delights in generating a million completely useless "hits".
> 
> If there is a piece of Illumos code for booting from >2 TB disks that needs to be ported over to OI, I'll do it if I can get answers to basic questions. Complex stuff such as, "What are the source files?" Where is the canonical repository?". 
> 
> Reg
> 

Could you please mail screenshot about that situation in installer? 

rgds,
toomas


> 
> On Thursday, March 18, 2021, 08:18:59 PM CDT, Judah Richardson <judahrichardson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:11 PM Hans Rosenfeld <rosenfeld at grumpf.hope-2000.org <mailto:rosenfeld at grumpf.hope-2000.org>> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:31:08AM +0000, Reginald Beardsley via illumos-discuss wrote:
> > Would someone please direct me to an explanation  of why we can't boot
> > from disk >2 TB in 2021?
> 
> Have you tried? What problems did you run into?
> I do believe he was referring to OI specifically. AFAIK, OI itself (not the live USB) has long had EFI boot issues, while other Illumos distributions such as OmniOS don't.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, the issue has been repeatedly paved over in great detail on the OI mailing list. 
> 
> illumos has had support for booting from disks > 2TB for a few years
> now, both in our ancient grub boot loader and of course also in the new
> loader that Toomas Soome ported from FreeBSD a few years ago.
> 
> 
> Hans
> 
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