I'm attempting to expand a root pool for a VMware VM that is on an 8GB virtual disk. I mirrored it to a 20GB disk and detached the 8GB disk. I did "installgrub" to install grub onto the second virtual disk, but I get a kernel panic when booting. Is there an extra step I need to perform to get this working?
Basically I did this: 1. Created a new 20GB virtual disk. 2. Booted into the VM. 3. Created a Solaris partition covering the whole virtual disk. 4. Created a slice 0 covering cylinders 1 to 2607 (i.e. the whole disk but cylinder 0). 4. Attached the slice 0 to the root pool using "zpool attach rpool /dev/dsk/c3d0s0 /dev/dsk/c5t0d0s0". 5. Installed grub using "installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s0". 6. detached the old 8GB virtual disk using "zpool detach rpool /dev/dsk/c3d0s0". 7. init 6. 8. reconfigured the VM BIOS to boot from the 2nd HDD first. When attempting to boot the VM I now get a big warning that the root pool cannot be mounted "This device is not bootable! It is either offlined or detached or faulted. Please try to boot from another device." and a nice kernel panic, followed by the inevitable reboot. How can I get this working? I'm using OpenSolaris 2008.05 upgraded to build 93. Thanks Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
