On Fri, February 19, 2010 00:32, Terry Hull wrote: > I have a machine with the Supermicro 8 port SATA card installed. I have > had no problem creating a mirrored boot disk using the oft-repeated > scheme: > > prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s2 | fmthard -s â /dev/rdsk/c4t1d0s2 > zpool attach rpool c4t0d0s0 c4t1d0s0 > wait for sync > installgrub -m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c4t1d0s0 > > Unfortunately when I shut the machine down and remove the primary boot > disk, it will no longer boot. I get the boot loader, and if I turn off > the splash screen I see it get to the point of displaying the host name. > At that point, it hangs forever. From the posts I've seen it looks like > this is a very standard scheme that just works. What can be missing with > my procedure. > > I am running Build 132, if that matters.
Disk boot order in your bios? I know that I succeeded in booting off the third (of four) disks in a mirror group Wednesday evening, but only after altering the disk boot order in the bios. Using that exact controller card, come to think of it. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
