Hi Doug, On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 06:45 -0700, Douglas Atique wrote: > Hi, Tim. Thanks for your hints.
No problem > Comments on each one follow (marked with "Doug:" and in blue). html mail :-/ > Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's a number of things you could check: > > 1. Is your root pool one of the supported types (mirror or > single-disk) > > Doug:I don't know. I have created a pool in a slice of my main > disk. This is the layout: I assume your pool has just one slice in it. zpool status -v <pool> tells you the pool layout. I've a similar (but less complicated) layout on my machine here (with nv_64, admittedly) Did you installgrub the new zfs-capable version of grub onto c0d0s0? (I'm assuming you did, otherwise the "bootfs" keyword in the ZFS entry would fail) I haven't tried booting a ZFS dataset from grub installed on a UFS disk > 2. There's a bug with compression at the moment - the root > pool, > and the top level pool need to have compression set to off. > ( 6538017 ) > Doug: I don't set compression on deliberately. Could it be on > by default? Nope, I don't think so - check with "zfs get compression <dataset>" > 3. Check that you've got an SMI label on the pool you're > trying to > boot from ( more at > > http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_bootable_datasets_happily_rumbling ) > Doug: I guess it is, because of the many slices. But how could > I check (read-only, non-destructively) Sounds like you've already got an SMI label if you can boot a UFS-rooted system from that disk. > 4. Can you make sure your bios is booting from the correct > device > Doug: I'm sure. That's the only disk I have. S10 and Solaris > Express from UFS all boot correctly. Okay. > 5. (a bit more drastic) Can you run the script pointed to at > the top of > that page and setup ZFS boot that way, which could account for > pilot > error in following the manual steps. > Doug: Haven't tried that, but I would really like to do it by > hand to make sure I understand what is going on. I agree. > After that, could you verify that by changing the grub menu > entry > in //boot/grub/menu.lst ( eg. change the "title" line in the > ZFS > boot entry, adding some random text) that you see those > changes > reflected in the menu that grub actually displays ? > Doug: This is my ZFS entry in my menu.lst: > root (hd0,0,f) > bootfs snv/b65 > kernel$ /boot/platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unkx -B > $ZFS-BOOTFS > module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive And this entry shows up when you boot in grub ? There's a typo in the above btw, "unkx", but I'm sure that was just an error pasting into this mail (otherwise you wouldn't have even got the banner printed) Does your /etc/vfstab file on the snv/b65 ZFS filesystem contain a single entry for /, which should look like: snv/b65 - / zfs - no - and your ufs root entry should have been changed to : /dev/dsk/c1d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s0 /ufsroot ufs - yes - (or removed) Can't think of anything else that might be wrong unfortunately. cheers, tim > -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
