Hello, I'm putting together a nice backup machine with 16 1T drives.
If I select all 16 drives at instalation, I get 16-way mirror. If I select just two, I get two-way mirror, but that is still a waste of space for me. I'd like to be able to install zfs mirror on just two small (say, 20GB) slices on two disks and use the remaining space as a part of the backup pool. Because installer is just a braindead shell script, I begin with installation on two disks. Then I remove one from the pool, repartition it, do a zfs send | zfs receive from the original disk to the small slice on the new disk, do a bootadm update-archive -R /new and do installgrub. I expect then to be able to boot from this new disk if I select it as a first boot device in bios. However, I only get a grub shell. If I type in grub commands manually, I get a kernel panic, something about not being able to link with stuff in boot archive. If I try to add relevant entries to grub's menu.lst on the original disk and boot from there, it does not even come up in the menu. Why is that? I'm familiar with how grub works on linux, but it seems I'm missing some details about solaris. Is there some documentation about grub on solaris? Is there some step-by-step guide on how to acomplish what I'd like to do? -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org _______________________________________________ gnusol-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-users
