[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Unbootable system recovery

2006-11-13 Thread Ewen Chan
Matt: What's your contact information so that I can send that information to you? My apologies for taking so long to get back to this. Sincerely, Ewen This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Re: Unbootable system recovery

2006-10-08 Thread Ewen Chan
How do I do that? I have the system messages (recorded by syslogd) and from there; you can kind of tell roughly the time period as to when things went wrong. If anybody from anywhere (Sun, ZFS, Solaris, etc.) wants to take a look at the unix.* and vmcore.* data; in addition to any logs or syste

[zfs-discuss] Re: Unbootable system recovery

2006-10-08 Thread Ewen Chan
P.S. I don't know if it makes any difference, but I did find that the scan order has changed somewhat. For example, right now, it starts the scan for the drives from sd10 (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED],0) whereas before; the drive scan started with sd1 (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED],0). Would it make a diff

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Unbootable system recovery

2006-10-07 Thread Ewen Chan
Well, the drives technically didn't "malfunction". Like I said, the reason why I had to pull the drives out is because 70 lbs is a little TOO much for me to be able to lift. The drives aren't more than 3 weeks old, with a DOM of Jul 2006. Is there anything that I can do to find out how the syst

[zfs-discuss] Re: Unbootable system recovery

2006-10-05 Thread Ewen Chan
In the instructions, it says that the system retains a copy of the zpool cache in /etc/zfs/zpool.cache. It also said that when the system boots up, it looks to that to try and mount the pool, so to get out of the panic-reboot look, it said to delete that file. Well, I retained a copy of it befo

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Unbootable system recovery

2006-10-05 Thread Ewen Chan
well...let me give a little bit of background. I built the system with a 4U, 16 drive rackmount enclosure; without a backplane. Originally, I thought that I wouldn't really need one because I was going to have 16 cables running around anyways. Once everything was in place, and AFTER, I had tran

[zfs-discuss] Re: Unbootable system recovery

2006-10-05 Thread Ewen Chan
(with help from Robert) Yes, there are files. # pwd /var/crash/FILESERVER # ls -F boundsunix.0unix.1 vmcore.0 vmcore.1 # mdb 0 Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix specfs dtrace cpu.AuthenticAMD.15 ufs ip sctp usba fctl nca lofs random zfs nfs sppp ptm cpc fcip ] > ::status debu

[zfs-discuss] Unbootable system recovery

2006-10-05 Thread Ewen Chan
I have just recently (physically) moved a system with 16 hard drives (for the array) and 1 OS drive; and in doing so, I needed to pull out the 16 drives so that it would be light enough for me to lift. When I plugged the drives back in, initially, it went into a panic-reboot loop. After doing s