On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Reginald Beardsley <pulask...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm trying to install on a 3 TB HGST disk which reports 512 byte sectors > using the text installer. The system is an HP N40L and is intended to be a > ZFS based NFS server for a Solaris 10 workstation. > > format(1m) correctly sees the size of the disk and I'm able to create a 128 > GB slice for a root pool and the rest (2.6 TB) for the eventual RAIDZ pool. > > However, the installer keeps telling me that I can't use more than 2 TB. > > I can't find anything about installing onto 4K sector disks in the wiki or > elsewhere.
I'm not aware of OpenIndiana-specific documentation to this problem, but I recall reading that both the most recent OpenSolaris as well as the current Solaris 11 can't be installed on disks >2TB. It had something to do with booting off a disk with a GPT label. I can't find the documentation in Solaris 11 describing the problem (maybe Oracle fixed it), but here it is in Solaris 10: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/819-5461/zfsboot-2.html (toward the bottom). > I can't see why the installer wouldn't look at the EFI label and just ask > which slice I want to install on instead of wanting to redo it. Will the > desktop installer do what I need? Again, in the above documentation it says that the label on the root disk *must* be SMI, and therefore cannot be EFI. Again, work may have been done since Solaris 10, but I'm not aware of OI-specific documentation of this problem. Cheers, Jan _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
