I checked for the bios updates - there are none (its just a consumer grade system). I will try disabling the drives in the bios - I did not realize that Solaris would still see the drives with that set. That would be the simplest method!
If not, I will try to partition and give a full slice to ZFS instead of the drive. I'll report back and let you guys know how it works - thanks for the quick suggestions all! - f On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Andy Lubel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 11, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote: > > > 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... > > > > See if a BIOS update is available as well? > > > > - 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 > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
