(My advice, BTW, would be to try putting the 2T drive into one of the SATA 2 ports, and seeing what transpires.)
- Rich On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Rich <rerc...@acm.jhu.edu> wrote: > 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
