Thanks David. Re. the starting cylinder, it was more that one c8t0d0 the partition started at zero and c8t1d0 it started at 1.
ie. c8t0d0 Partition Status Type Start End Length % ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === 1 Active Solaris2 0 30401 30402 100 c8t1d0: Partition Status Type Start End Length % ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === 1 Active Solaris2 1 30400 30400 100 All good now and yes, i did run installgrub...yet to test booting from c8t1d0 (with c8t0d0 removed). -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss