On 28 Nov 2008, at 00:07, Peter Brouwer, Principal Storage Architect wrote:
> > > dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:58:20 +0000 >> Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I'm not 100% convinced it'll boot if half the mirror's not there, >>> >> Believe me, it will (been there done that). You -have- to make sure >> though that both disks have installgrub ... And that your bios is >> able >> to boot from the other disk. Nod. I've had one boot failure already, but maybe that was down to the mirrors rebuilding while trying to boot? The result was an error in grub: "Error 37: file system not found" (IIRC). Google doesn't tell me much about that one. I was able to boot from the live CD and import the rpool OK, and rebooting off the disks then succeeded. As long as I can do that, I'm sort of happy. >> You can always try it ou by pulling a plug from one of the disks ;-) >> > Or less drastic, use the BIOS to point to one of the disks in the > mirror to boot from. > If you have used installgrub to setup the stage 1&2 for both boot > drives you can boot from either one. That wouldn't test if there was some interdependency between the disks - I'm not sure how such a thing would happen but with my luck this week I'm sure I could do it. Is there a better list to discuss boot problems? Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
