Paul Johnson wrote: > Hi, I have a Sun Ultra 20 PC with 2 x 400GB HDD setup as a ZFS mirror at > root. I'm running a version of opensolaris that I downloaded about 2 weeks > ago. > > All went well until I added the 2nd disk to the zpool to make the mirror. > > Problem now is that on boot neither of the disks are reported by the BIOS, so > the system hangs, as would be expected as there is no boot device visible. > > If I pull the 2nd disk out slightly the BIOS shows the 1st disk OK. Shoving > the 2nd disk in after the BIOS messages have finished, and before GRUB > appears, allows the OS to boot. > > Once booted both disks and ZFS show as OK. > > It looks to me like a ZFS boot issue, but I'm a DBMS guy not an OS guy. > > More like a BIOS issue. Can the machine boot form the second disk only?
Ian
