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). > > 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. >
This is likely the BIOS getting confused by the EFI label on the disks. Since there's no newer BIOS available there are two ways around this problem: 1) put a normal label on the disk and give zfs slice 2, or 2) don't have the BIOS do auto-detect on those drives. Many BIOSs let you select None for the disk type; this will allow the system to boot. Solaris has no problem finding the drives even w/o the BIOSs help... - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
