you cannot use the whole disk for a zfs boot disk. the bios of the pc understands only partitions and knows how to boot only from them
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Mike DeMarco <mikej...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> I would check that your hardware is functioning >> correctly by using these >> commands: >> >> # fmdump -eV >> # iostat -En >> # more /var/adm/messages >> >> Thanks, >> >> Cindy > Yes all hardware is working, as a single disk drive the OS has no probelms. > System only hangs when it is mirroring two drives to the rpool. System has 8 > drives in with multiple partitions on each. Both drives that mirror to the > rpool have Solaris2 partition type and both have the active partition set. > > Years ago it was recommended that zpool be built only with the whole device > and not with a slice from the device. I am at a loss as to why the install > builds the rpool from a slice rather than the entire drive. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
