OK, a bit more and detailed info. I've dropped back to making the second disk a 250Gb instead of a 750Gb 1) because it's definitely supported in the ultra 24 where as I'm not sure about the 750, 2) I'm not sure if there is still limitation in having boot files within the first 1000 blocks (was it? is it?) 3) I'm not even sure if the mirror actually worked if one drive was pulled when I had 2 x 250Gb set up previously.
A little on physical to BIOS to OS drive mapping. There are 4 physical disk slots 0 to 3, 4 BIOS HDDs, SATA:P1 to SATA:P4 of which I can designate the boot order. Phys => BIOS => OS Slot 1 = SATA:P2 = c0d1s0 Slot 3 = SATA:P4 = c6d0s0 # zpool status rpool pool: rpool state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c0d1s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c6d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors # I still have the problem where I can't boot from c6d0s0 (with c0d1s0 removed). I CAN boot from c6d0s0 if c0d1s0 is plugged in though. The full error when booting off c6d0s0 (with c0d1s0 removed): Booting 'Solaris 10 5/09 s10x_u7wos_08 x86' finding (pool_rpool,1,a) Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue >From the grub command line, booting from c0d1s0, with both disks in: grub> find /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst zio_read_data_failed checksum verification failed checksum verification failed zio_read_data_failed Error 15: File not found grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst (hd0,1,a) (hd1,0,a) zio_read_data_failed checksum verification failed checksum verification failed zio_read_data_failed Error 15: File not found >From the grub command line, booting from c6d0s0, with both disks in: grub> find /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst zio_read_data_failed checksum verification failed checksum verification failed zio_read_data_failed Error 15: File not found grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst (hd0,0,a) (hd1,1,a) zio_read_data_failed checksum verification failed checksum verification failed zio_read_data_failed Error 15: File not found >From the grub command line, booting from c6d0s0, with c0d1s0 removed: same as above but no ((hd1,1,a) the zio_read_etc and checksum errors seem to be unrelated to my particular problem as they appear for both booting and non booting drives. So... any idea what I've missed or done wrong? Thanks P -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org