Frank Bottone wrote: > I'm using the latest build of opensolaris express available from > opensolaris.org. > > I had no problems with the install (its an AMD64 x2 3800+, 1gb > physical ram, 1 ide drive for the os and 4*250GB sata drives attached > to the motherboard - nforce based chipset). >
If you gave the whole disks to ZFS, then it will put an EFI label on the disk. Some BIOSes don't understand EFI labels. Try a later BIOS, or change back to a Sun style of label using the "-e" option to format. -- richard > I create a zfs pool on the 4 sata drives as a raidZ and the pool works > fine. If I reboot with any of the 4 drives connected the system hangs > right after all the drives are detected on the post screen. I need to > put them in a different system and zero them with dd in order to be > able to reconnect them to my server and still have the system boot > properly. > > Any ideas on how I can get around this? It seems like the onboard > system itself is getting confused by the metadata ZFS is adding to the > drive. The system already has the latest available bios from the > manufacturer - I'm not using any hardware raid of any sort. > > Thanks in advance! > > - f > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
