Hi all, I did an install of OpenSolaris in which I specified that the whole disk should be used for the installation. Here is what "format> verify" produces for that disk:
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 root wm 1 - 60797 465.73GB (60797/0/0) 976703805 1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 2 backup wu 0 - 60797 465.74GB (60798/0/0) 976719870 3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065 9 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 I have several questions. First, what is the purpose of partitions 2 and 8 here? Why not simply have partition 0, the "root" partition, be the only partition, and start at cylinder 0 as opposed to 1? My second question concerns the disk I have used to mirror the first root zpool disk. After I set up the second disk to mirror the first one with "zpool attach -f rpool c3t0d0s0 c4t0d0s0", I got the response Please be sure to invoke installgrub(1M) to make 'c4t0d0s0' bootable. Is that correct? Or do I want to make c4t0d0s8 bootable, given that the label of that partition is "boot"? I cannot help finding this a little confusing. As far as i can tell, c4t0d0s8 (as well as c3t0d0s8 from the original disk which I mirrored), cylinder 0, is not used for anything. Finally, is the correct command to make the disk I have added to mirror the first disk bootable "installgrub -m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0" ? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
