Sigh... Thanks Jan. On to plan B, whatever that is. I'd really been hoping to have 4x3 TB RAIDZ w/ a mirrored root pool. It's still doable, but it will be tedious to stuff two more disks in the box.
FWIW The drive in question is a replacement for a 512 byte HGST drive that I had to RMA. It lies about the sector size and causes format(1m) to dump core on Solaris 10 U8. As it turns out, I was able to properly label the drive using the OI 151_a7 text installer shell. With that done, Solaris 10 allowed me to create a pool and I'm currently copying files from a USB drive using zfs send. I'm not sure if I'm out of the woods yet, but it's at least a hopeful sign. I tried to do this before, but via a USB/SATA adaptor which apparently didn't work past 2 TB. My regular OI box only has one SATA port. Note the wiki entry for 4k sector drives has broken links to a modified zpool command that sets ashift=12. Have Fun! Reg --- On Sat, 1/26/13, Jan Owoc <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jan Owoc <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI 151_a7 install on 4k sector disk > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, January 26, 2013, 8:44 AM > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:08 AM, > Reginald Beardsley <[email protected]> > 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 > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
