Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-11 Thread Matt Connolly
On 11/02/2012, at 12:49, Mark Creamer white...@gmail.com wrote: If you have a mirrored set for your OS (rpool) you can configure it so the failure of either one of those two drives will cause the system to boot automatically from the other. Google mirrored rpool. I think I found my

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-10 Thread Matt Connolly
Well the machine is back up and running. It seems that one of the drives was in a faulted state - probably a separate issue from the power outage. But that drive was configured by the bios to be the boot drive, and the system refused to boot off a faulted drive. Instantly restarted, repeat.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-10 Thread Mark Creamer
If you have a mirrored set for your OS (rpool) you can configure it so the failure of either one of those two drives will cause the system to boot automatically from the other. Google mirrored rpool. I think I found my instructions on Constantin Gonzales' site IIRC On Friday, February 10, 2012,

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-09 Thread Matt Connolly
Dear list, I had a power outage at my house recently and my OpenIndiana backup server has failed to reboot. I've attempted the following diagnostics: - boot with -k -v shows a kernel panic where the boot pool fails to mount because it is degraded. - I've booted with Gparted Live CD and can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

2012-02-09 Thread Gordon Ross
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, I had a power outage at my house recently and my OpenIndiana backup server has failed to reboot. [...] Does anyone have any ideas on how to do more diagnostics / repairs?? You might try: zpool