John Sonnenschein wrote:
I *just* figgured out this problem, looking for a potential solution (or at the
very least some validation that i'm not crazy)
Okay, so here's the deal. I've been using this terrible horrible no-good very bad hackup of a couple partitions spread across 3 drives as a zpool.
I got sick of having to dig up the info of what slices do what every time I need to do something, so I shuffled around some data & created a new zpool out of my SATA drive. ( [i]# zpool create xenophanes c2d0[/i] ).
Everything works, etc. for a while, then I rebooted the machine.
As it turns out now, something about the drive is causing the machine to hang on POST. It boots fine if the drive isn't connected, and if I hot plug the drive after the machine boots, it works fine, but the computer simply will not boot with the drive attatched.
any thoughts on resolution?
When you give ZFS a whole drive, it writes a EFI label
on the disk. Some bios vendors' products choke when
they taste this label; the Tyan 2865 does this.
Go to the BIOS screen and disable probing for that
disk; tell the BIOS there is nothing there (turn off
AUTO mode). Then power cycle (NOT reset) the box and
it should boot w/o further problems.
- Bart (who ran into this on his home server).
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
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