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 :)
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