Krister Joas wrote: > Hello. > > I have a machine at home on which I have SXCE B96 installed on a root > zpool mirror. It's been working great until yesterday. The root pool > is a mirror with two identical 160GB disks. The other day I added a > third disk to the mirror, a 250 GB disk. Soon after, the third disk > developed some hardware problem and this is now preventing the system > from booting from the root pool. It panics early on and reboots. > > I'm trying to repair the system by dropping into single user mode > after booting from a DVD-ROM. I had to yank the third disk in order > for the machine to boot successfully at all. However, in single user > mode I'm so far unable to do anything useful with the pool. Using > "zpool import" the pool is listed as being DEGRADED, with one device > being UNAVAILABLE (cannot open). The pool is also shown to be last > accessed by another system. All this is as expected. Any command > other than "zpool import" knows nothing about the pool "rpool", e.g. > "zpool status". Assuming I have to import the pool before doing > anything like detaching any bad devices I try importing it using > "zpool import -f rpool". This displays an error: > > cannot import 'rpool': one or more devices is currently unavailable > > At this point I'm stuck. I can't boot from the pool and I can't > access the pool after booting into single user mode from a DVD-ROM. > Does anyone have any advice on how to repair my system? > > Krister > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Krister, When you boot off of the DVD, there should be an option to go into single-user shell. This will search for root instances. Does this get displayed? Once you get to the DVD shell prompt, can you try to run 'zpool import -F rpool'? thanks, George _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
