thanks Joseph! labels are fine I think. I found this http://ipv5.wordpress.com/ works well.
here is the summary: >> pfexec prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c8t2d0s2 fmthard: Cannot open device /dev/rdsk/c8t2d0s2 - Permission denied Solution: >> su >> prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c8t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c8t2d0s2 fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place. >> zpool status -v pool: rpool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 c8t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors >> zpool attach -f rpool c8t0d0s0 c8t2d0s0 Please be sure to invoke installgrub(1M) to make 'c8t2d0s0' bootable. >> installgrub -m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c8t2d0s0 Updating master boot sector destroys existing boot managers (if any). continue (y/n)?y stage1 written to partition 0 sector 0 (abs 16065) stage2 written to partition 0, 271 sectors starting at 50 (abs 16115) stage1 written to master boot sector >> zpool status -v pool: rpool state: ONLINE scrub: resilver completed after 0h4m with 0 errors on Mon Jul 27 19:54:01 2009 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror ONLINE 0 0 0 c8t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c8t2d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 6.82G resilvered errors: No known data errors This is what I got the last time I tried this successfully before the Suse installation !!! Bye Bye Suse...Hello Opensolaris :) Regards, Karun -- This message posted from opensolaris.org