‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 5:29 AM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> That was singularly unsuccessful. It got confused by all the other pools and > apparently FreeBSD 12.2 created a "zroot" pool which was "corrupted" and > could not be destroyed in any fashion using zpool. I'll find out more when > "ZFS Essentials" , "Solaris Internals" 2nd ed and McKusic et al arrive. > > So I did what admins have done since long before I started using Unix. I > wiped the label with dd(1) and started over. Boy was I ever starting over! > > That resulted in "format -e" dumping core again. And even after I created a > 4.5 TiB ntfs file system using a standalone gparted disk it completely hosed > the geometry on the drive and put me back in the geometry definition dialog I > had not seen since I was running dual 141 MB disks on Emulex cards as LUN 0 & > 1 on the same SCSI target. Sun very helpfully put that feature in the generic > 4.4.1a kernel for the 3/60. That was very useful cutting down the length of > the SCSI bus. With 4 shoeboxes it was fragile. Just moving the cables would > make it fail. So I consolidated the drives and eliminated 1 shoebox and cable. > > In general format(1m) and the install programs cannot find the drive and get > correct geometry from it. I don't recall the SCSI code page commands to feed > format(1m) to read the data. But format(1m) needs some serious work. It > should not dump core. > > As John helpfully pointed out, the text installs on the 2 disks are not the > same. And the text install ISO has the very helpful feature of using white > text on a light colored background so that people who have macular > degeneration get extra help in making their life more difficult than it > already is. > > BTW The labeling is inconsistent some screens have "F2_continue" and some of > the later screens have "ESC-2_continue", though it's actually still F2. > > Yes, sir. A real quality product. No effort expended to make it work smoothly. > > Reg > > BTW I'll see if I can capture what format(1m) says when I tell it the disk > speed is 7200 rpm. I don't recall, but it's pretty funny, I remember that. > Even 30 years ago the raw geometry stuff was actually obsolete, though still > often needed. I'm not concerned that my drive is ruined, because it's not. > I've been here and fixed this before. It's just tedious and a bit > disappointing to see "format -e" dump core again. It will be pretty funny in > a rather sad sort of way if I have to install Linux or Windows to make > Hipster install. > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss Could you try other Illumos to see if it's OI specific? I suggest you to try OmniOS. If it's a generic problem for Illumos then the OI people can't do anything, so don't blame them. If it's so, perhaps Illumos is not for you. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
