Most BIOSes really don't like trying to boot to things beyond a certain threshold into the drive [who even bothers implementing full LBA support, anyway...]
Make a traditional MBR partition table and take a 100GB primary partition for root (or 64 GB or 32 or something smaller) - make it using gparted having cleared the EFI bits if necessary. I believe OI can be convinced to boot from said partition and not whole-disk, though I've not tried it. Once you're in the OS, you should be able to address the rest of the drive, though not as one contiguous storage blob [I'd bet a dollar if you tried concatenating the zpool, nothing sane would happen]. It's also possible that your problem is that the 2T drive is doing SATA 3 and something is buggy in how OI is handling the SATA 3 (whereas the 250GB drive is likely SATA 1/2). - Rich On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) <openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > To at least summarize your problem, without all the distracting irrelevant > details and tangents of the OP and this thread in general... Even if I don't > have an answer for you ... > > When you boot the OI installer DVD, with a 2TB drive attached, OI simply > cannot see the disk. > When you boot the same system, with a 250G disk attached, OI installs just > fine. So at least this confirms OI can use the SATA controller (or > whatever). It suggests that the problem is the system can't handle drive of > 2TB size... > However, you can install (what did you say, centos and ubuntu?) some other OS > onto the 2TB drive, just fine. > > So what gives? Is it a driver problem, a hardware compatibility problem, or > what? And can anything be done about it? > > My only suggestion is to check the drive mode. I would guess you want AHCI, > and I would guess it already is in AHCI mode, so I'm guessing this suggestion > is no help. > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
