Try running format, choose that disk, run fdisk and remove the EFI fdisk partition and create a Solaris partition. Then in format label the disk.
-evan Sébastien Stormacq wrote: > 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
