OK will try this Any suggestion to repartition ? I can't remind the exact errors but it seems that fdisk is not happy at all with the EFI partition :-(
thanks --- Sébastien Stormacq Senior Software Architect GSS Software Practice, Sun Microsystems Luxembourg On 23 Jan 2009, at 23:26, Evan Layton wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Sébastien Stormacq <sebastien.storm...@sun.com > > wrote: > >> Evan, >> >> Using BE_PRINT_ERR=true (instead of 1 ;-) gives one more line that >> point to the error >> >> s...@yajug:~# beadm activate opensolaris-1 >> be_do_installgrub: installgrub failed for device c4t1d0s2. >> >> >> c4t1d0s2 is a mirror in my zpool >> >> s...@yajug:~# zpool status >> pool: rpool >> state: ONLINE >> scrub: resilver completed after 0h4m with 0 errors on Wed Jan 21 >> 13:57:10 2009 >> config: >> >> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM >> rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 >> mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c4t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 23.9M resilvered >> c4t1d0s2 ONLINE 0 0 0 4.16G resilvered >> >> errors: No known data errors >> >> >> I did not install grub (yet) on the second disk >> Actually, I had a whole bunch of issues to include that disk in the >> mirror because it is EFI partitioned >> >> Any suggestion ? > > EFI labeled disks are not supported for root pools. The only thing I > can suggest is to remove that device from the pool and remove the > EFI labeled partition, create a solaris fdisk partition (vtoc) and > re-attach the device. > > -evan > >> >> >> Thanks for your help >> >> >> --- >> Sébastien Stormacq >> Senior Software Architect >> GSS Software Practice, >> Sun Microsystems Luxembourg >> >> On 23 Jan 2009, at 23:11, Evan Layton wrote: >> >>> Sébastien Stormacq wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> I installed OpenSolaris 2008.11 on a Sun v40z machine. >>>> Unfortunately the build I use, although being 101b was not the >>>> latest one, i.e. it was a couple of hours before GA : >>>> Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.11 snv_101b November >>>> 2008 >>>> I tried to update to GA with image-update >>>> r...@yajug:~# pkg list -u >>>> NAME (AUTHORITY) VERSION >>>> STATE UFIX >>>> entire 0.5.11-0.101 >>>> installed u--- >>>> r...@yajug:~# pkg image-update >>>> PHASE ACTIONS >>>> Update Phase 1/1 >>>> PHASE ITEMS >>>> Reading Existing Index 9/9 >>>> Indexing Packages 1/1 >>>> pkg: unable to activate opensolaris-1 >>>> r...@yajug:~# beadm activate opensolaris-1 >>>> Unable to activate opensolaris-1. >>>> Unknown external error. >>>> How can I further diagnose / solve this ?? >>> >>> Can you set "export BE_PRINT_ERR=true" before running beadm >>> activate and send the debug output? That should help narrow down >>> where the problem is. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -evan >>> >>>> I followed the same procedure with the same image on a couple of >>>> VMs and it was always OK >>>> Thanks for your help >>>> --- >>>> Sébastien Stormacq >>>> Senior Software Architect >>>> GSS Software Practice, >>>> Sun Microsystems Luxembourg >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> indiana-discuss mailing list >>>> indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss >>> >> _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
