Hello,

I tried that already
format shows only a Solaris partition.

I did label the disk too

but

r...@yajug:~# zpool attach rpool mirror c4t1d0
cannot label 'c4t1d0': EFI labeled devices are not supported on root  
pools.


Seb
---
Sébastien Stormacq
Senior Software Architect
GSS Software Practice,
Sun Microsystems Luxembourg

On 23 Jan 2009, at 23:42, Evan Layton wrote:

> 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
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>>>>>
>>>>
>

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