Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-25 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)
On 25/01/2018 15:39, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote: I lost the disk on my OI_151a8 system. The swap area was going bad. So I booted from a 2017.10 Hipster DVD, imported the old drive and copied everything to another disk using a USB <-> SATA adaptor. The evolving nature o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-25 Thread Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss
I lost the disk on my OI_151a8 system. The swap area was going bad. So I booted from a 2017.10 Hipster DVD, imported the old drive and copied everything to another disk using a USB <-> SATA adaptor. The evolving nature of ZFS makes the traditional miniroot problematic. If the ZFS implementa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-25 Thread Jim Klimov
On January 24, 2018 10:55:21 PM UTC, Jerry Kemp wrote: >Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, >apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana >(pre-Hipster) system. I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I >believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-24 Thread Jerry Kemp
thanks for the quick reply Andrew!! On 24/01/18 18:49, Andrew Gabriel wrote: On 24/01/2018 22:55, Jerry Kemp wrote: Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana (pre-Hipster) system. I believe the OS (SSD) drive is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-24 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 24/01/2018 22:55, Jerry Kemp wrote: Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana (pre-Hipster) system.  I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail=continue switch o

[OpenIndiana-discuss] failsafe boot howto on older OpenIndiana system

2018-01-24 Thread Jerry Kemp
Had a bad power outage (another story un-into itself) at home, apparently took multiple drives out on an older OpenIndiana (pre-Hipster) system. I believe the OS (SSD) drive is OK, and I believe that I probably forgot to set the zfs fail=continue switch on the other pools. My yahoo-fu must be