Hello! This would be my first post on this forum. Having dealt a lot with Solaris in the good old days I thought I'd try and see what you can do with Opensolaris 11 and ZFS.
So far I have come up with one annoying little snag that I would like to fix if possible. We use almost only HP Proliant servers and Opensolaris does not have native support for the built-in SmartArray controllers. HP has a driver package for Solaris 10 but I cannot for my life successfully add those drivers to the running LiveCD. I can install the driver package but it wants to reboot to activate it and since it is a LiveCD... I also tried to manually modload the driver file but that only gets me a "no such device or address" error. I know the driver works because we have managed to install Opensolaris 2008.05 on a SAN disk and then installed the driver package on top of that and once rebooted the built in disks show up. I have also managed to move the installation from the SAN disk to the internal disks using ZFS mirroring and now we have a system that flawlessly boots from the internal controller. Still it would be nice if I could get the LiveCD to work. What have I missed? The "no such device or address" message would indicate that the kernel needs some data to match PCI IDs or something. If I can get the disks online I can install the drivers to the new root with "pkgadd -r". Best regards, /Erik -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
