* Matt (registration at flash.shanje.com) wrote: > I'm building a new ZFS SAN box, and I plan on booting from a mirrored > pair of Intel 40GB SSD drives. The problem that I'm running in to > (using standard SATA drives for testing) is that when I enable the > software RAID, it will not boot and gives me a "console login > service(s) cannot run" error.
I've seen this sort of failure mode when OpenSolaris doesn't have a driver for the RAID chipset. For instance, I have a Dell XPS 420 box that has an ICH9R chipset which OpenSolaris doesn't support yet and so I have to disable this in the BIOS in order to see my disks under OpenSolaris. > Do I need to use a hardware RAID card to accomplish this rather than > the onboard RAID? I'd rather not do that if I can get away with it, > but I suppose if that's a deal-breaker I can add in an expansion card. Why are you using any sort of hardware raid. Why not just let ZFS manage the disks in a mirrored configuration? I'm pretty sure that's recommended. Cheers, -- Glenn
