> 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.
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