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

[Judah Richardson]

IIRC the DE would fail to start on UEFI boot and the display would just
show a blinking cursor. This is how
<https://github.com/jdrch/Hardware/wiki/How-to-Install-OpenIndiana> I got
OI installed and booting (albeit booting in legacy mode.)

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:38 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:

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> On 19. Mar 2021, at 21:06, Judah Richardson <judahrichardson at gmail.com>
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> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:14 PM Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
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>> On 19. Mar 2021, at 16:21, Judah Richardson <judahrichardson at gmail.com>
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>> Thanks Toomas. A few questions about that:
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>>    1. Which OI version was originally installed? That would help me
>>    pinpoint where OI UEFI support landed
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>> That is tricky:D because it was installed before I wrote UEFI support for
>> illumos:D (technically it is still not complete, but thats another story).
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>> I was thinking, what point in time to count for this landing - because we
>> did add it step by step, but I think this headsup should be the mark:
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>> https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T97536ca6fe4642cf-M727f3d9b380cd0b011197de1/headsup-or-something
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>> So 2019.05 should have those bits already.
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> OK. Welp, didn't work for me when I tried installing the latest Hipster in
> 2020, but the target disk was a 128 GB SSD so not really an issue.
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> What was the problem?
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> rgds,
> toomas
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>>    1. What hardware is this on? If it's a prebuilt PC brand and model
>>    name would be great. If you built the PC yourself, I'd appreciate the brand
>>    and model of the motherboard
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>> my host is a bit old already, it is Supermicro X10SAE with Intel(r)
>> Xeon(r) CPU E3-1246 v3 @ 3.50GHz. It is doing ok for my needs (illumos dev
>> and build host).
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> Thanks for the info!
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>> rgds,
>> toomas
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>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:18 AM Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss <
>> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
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>>> > On 19. Mar 2021, at 02:31, Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev <
>>> oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
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>>> > Would someone please direct me to an explanation  of why we can't boot
>>> from disk >2 TB in 2021?
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>>> root at beastie:/code/illumos-gate# format
>>> Searching for disks...done
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>>>
>>> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
>>>        0. c3t0d0 <WDC-WD4004FZWX-00GBGB0-81.H0A81-3.64TB>
>>>           /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,805 at 1f,2/disk at 0,0
>>>        1. c3t1d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB>
>>>           /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,805 at 1f,2/disk at 1,0
>>>        2. c3t3d0 <WDC-WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0-01.01A01-3.64TB>
>>>           /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,805 at 1f,2/disk at 3,0
>>>        3. c3t4d0 <WDC-WD4005FZBX-00K5WB0-01.01A01-3.64TB>
>>>           /pci at 0,0/pci15d9,805 at 1f,2/disk at 4,0
>>> Specify disk (enter its number): ^D
>>> root at beastie:/code/illumos-gate# zpool status rpool
>>>   pool: rpool
>>>  state: ONLINE
>>>   scan: resilvered 1,68T in 0 days 10:10:07 with 0 errors on Fri Oct 25
>>> 05:05:34 2019
>>> config:
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>>>         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>>>         rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
>>>           raidz1-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>>             c3t0d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>>             c3t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>>             c3t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>>             c3t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>>
>>> errors: No known data errors
>>> root at beastie:/code/illumos-gate#
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>>> I can tell, this system does boot just fine with both UEFI and BIOS
>>> firmware.
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>>> rgds,
>>> toomas
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>>> >
>>> > It's very hard for me to see a significant obstacle to reading an x86
>>> MBR that loads code that will then boot from GPT label disks.
>>> >
>>> > I'm rebuilding my Sol 10 u8 system with my spare 2 TB disk.  I'd like
>>> to replace the 3x  2 TB disk RAIDZ1 setup with  a 4-5x disk RAIDZ2 using 4
>>> TB disks using my s0 & s1 configuration.
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>>> > I must assume that the Illumos market is dominated by customers who
>>> don't care about having a few small SMI labeled boot disks in a farm of
>>> large GPT labeled disks.  But for a 7 SATA port system, that's not very
>>> viable.
>>> >
>>> > Linux, MS and BSD can do it, so we should be able to do it also.  It's
>>> become enough of a personal nuisance that I'm willing to fix it if I get a
>>> modest level of cooperation.
>>> >
>>> > So please, point me at any known issues.  For workstations the s0 root
>>> pool and s1 export pool works really well.
>>> >
>>> > Reg
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>>> > BTW After a DIMM shuffle, "format -e" and scrubs no longer dump core
>>> on u8.  Now X goes off into la-la land :-(  Clearly I need new DIMMS.
>>> >
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