Interesting thought, I'll bet that’s what it was but I would love to hear if anyone has a definitive answer. Thank you everyone for your help!
Josh -----Original Message----- From: Timo Raatikainen [mailto:timo.raatikai...@sourapple.fi] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 2:03 AM To: Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org> Cc: Josh Barton <josh.bar...@usurf.usu.edu>; Dan McDonald <dan...@omniti.com>; omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Only grub after boot Notice that the drive in question (ST2000NX0243) is a 4k native drive. I’ve never tried booting from such drive, could someone confirm if grub can handle it? I suspect that it might not. -- Timo Raatikainen > On 9.6.2016, at 5.38, Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org> wrote: > >> From: Josh Barton >> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 3:17 PM >> >> The hba is reporting the correct sizes for all drives, I didn't ever >> try > directly >> plugging in to the motherboard sata controller because I couldn't >> find a molex to sata power adapter. > > You could also see if anybody has a sff8087 breakout cable laying > around so you could hook up the SATA port to the hotswap backplane :). > > Did you try installing a linux distribution to see if you could get > its grub to boot off of the 2TB drive via the SAS HBA? If that works, > it would rule out the hard drive itself as being faulty. > > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
