Re: [zfs-discuss] Trouble mirroring root pool onto larger disk

2011-07-01 Thread Jim Klimov
Do you get to the GRUB menu while booting from the larger drive (then you can try verbose and/or mdb boots to Solaris and catch its panic errors), or does the machine reboot before even getting to GRUB? Couple of "silly questions": 1) Did you "installgrub" onto the second drive? 2) Are you cert

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trouble mirroring root pool onto larger disk

2011-07-01 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Jiawen, Yes, the boot failure message would be very helpful. The first thing to rule out is: I think you need to be running a 64-bit kernel to boot from a 2 TB disk. Thanks, Cindy On 07/01/11 02:58, Jiawen Chen wrote: Hi, I have Solaris 11 Express with a root pool installed on a 500

Re: [zfs-discuss] Trouble mirroring root pool onto larger disk

2011-07-01 Thread Jiawen Chen
Here's my disk layout = 500 GB disk fdisk Total disk size is 60801 cylinders Cylinder size is 16065 (512 byte) blocks Cylinders Partition StatusType