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Installing Solaris on ZFS using a 32-bit x86 miniroot on a large memory machine

edited Mar 20, 2014 12:35PM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC)

Tried to install Solaris 10 (U11) - rollout a previous taken flar - using a 32bit miniroot on an X4-2 (512GB memory). The installer script bombs out with no apparent message, but the log does contain it has issues handling a large swap (was set to 4GB).

Switching to a 64bit miniroot solved our issue. We had created a miniroot which included VMXNET drivers and in order to not do the double work (ie 32bit vs 64bit) we opted to support a 32bit miniroot kernel only in our installer.

This worked fine for UFS and ZFS on smaller systems, but when trying the ZFS rpool installer on the X4-2 things got ugly.

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