Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on 2tb disk

2023-11-22 Thread Goetz T. Fischer
thanks for all replies! unfortunately the hardware was not up to me and i couldn't do something like a bios and/or (controller) firmware upgrade either. in the meantime i also tried tribblix but the result was the same. seems to be a general illumos issue. i ended up using solaris 11.4 which h

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on 2tb disk

2023-11-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/11/2023 8:00 pm, Gea wrote: I suppose the disk is simply bad, try another one. There is only a 2TB restriction with some older controllers ex LSI 1068 btw why do you want to use large disks for rpool as you "should" not place data onto beside the OS. Usually I use a cheap 100G+ SSD for r

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on 2tb disk

2023-11-22 Thread Gea
I suppose the disk is simply bad, try another one. There is only a 2TB restriction with some older controllers ex LSI 1068 btw why do you want to use large disks for rpool as you "should" not place data onto beside the OS. Usually I use a cheap 100G+ SSD for rpool with all data on a datapool.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on 2tb disk

2023-11-21 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 21. Nov 2023, at 21:49, Toomas Soome wrote: > >> >> On 21. Nov 2023, at 20:24, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: >> >> hello again, >> >> i just tried to install indiana onto a 2tb disk and the installer crashed. >> it claimed the disk had 64tb >> and complained about the size. trying to use

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on 2tb disk

2023-11-21 Thread Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
> On 21. Nov 2023, at 20:24, Goetz T. Fischer wrote: > > hello again, > > i just tried to install indiana onto a 2tb disk and the installer crashed. it > claimed the disk had 64tb > and complained about the size. trying to use format from the shell resulted > in a crash as well. > then i tr

[OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on 2tb disk

2023-11-21 Thread Goetz T. Fischer
hello again, i just tried to install indiana onto a 2tb disk and the installer crashed. it claimed the disk had 64tb and complained about the size. trying to use format from the shell resulted in a crash as well. then i tried omnios and with that the installation worked. however, after logging