Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2013-01-02 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-01-01 14:47, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: Thanks a lot for all help and a Happy New Year to you all. You too, and all the best to everyone. jock@bigblue:~$ *sudo zpool import -f tank* cannot mount '/export/home': directory is not empty You can avoid this error for cleanness by

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2013-01-01 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
New year, new try. ;) I installed oi151a5 today and I can now see my (most important) disks. Imported my pool and all looks OK. Thanks a lot for all help and a Happy New Year to you all. jock@bigblue:~$ *zpool status* pool: rpool state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2013-01-01 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
Side track, given the zpool zfs versions, shall I upgrade? I think oi151a5 can get me up to zpool version 28 and zfs version 5... Which first to upgrade zpool or zfs??? jock@bigblue:~$ *zpool upgrade* This system supports ZFS pool feature flags. The following pools are out of date, and can be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2013-01-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: Side track, given the zpool zfs versions, shall I upgrade? I think oi151a5 can get me up to zpool version 28 and zfs version 5... Which first to upgrade zpool or zfs??? Unless you are requiring a feature (list features with 'zfs upgrade -v'),

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to] That isn't necessarily a driver. What model hba do you have? If it is among many versions of megaraid or similar, you won't see any disks until you create logical units from the raid card bios interface. OOohhh... Be *very* careful though. It is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Thommy M. Malmström [mailto:thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com] I might have a drained battery as the time was reset, I noticed. I'll get a new one. The MB is a GIGABYTE K8N ProSli and I haven't done more than disconnecting the disks during new install of b147 (just to make sure I didn't

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-21 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
Thanks, I appreciate your help. I've just not so much time just now to check your suggestions. I might have a drained battery as the time was reset, I noticed. I'll get a new one. The MB is a GIGABYTE K8N ProSli and I haven't done more than disconnecting the disks during new install of b147 (just

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-21 Thread Doug Hughes
That isn't necessarily a driver. What model hba do you have? If it is among many versions of megaraid or similar, you won't see any disks until you create logical units from the raid card bios interface. On Dec 19, 2012 9:53 AM, Thommy M. Malmström thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Jason Matthews [mailto:ja...@broken.net] Which motherboard are you using? Do you have the drives connected to an HBA or the motherboard? If HBA, which HBA? If they are connected to the motherboard, and the ports are sata, your best chance of making them work is to first try the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-20 Thread Jason Matthews
Sent from Jasons' hand held On Dec 20, 2012, at 7:05 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) openindi...@nedharvey.com wrote: But he didn't change the hardware - in the OP he said he replaced one disk (the boot disk) and installed openindiana where he was previously running opensolaris.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Thommy M. Malmström [mailto:thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com] Thanks for your suggestion guys. The zpool import -f didn't help BUT so far I had not physically attached the important disks, those with all my digital images. I tried that today and zpool import saw that pool, thank FSM.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-19 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
Sorry I didn't read this thread till today - The first thing is, you *must* be able to see the disks via sudo format -e /dev/null If they're not there, reboot, make sure they're enabled in BIOS, and sudo devfsadm -Cv After that, they should be visible, or else you're missing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)
From: Thommy M. Malmström [mailto:thommy.m.malmst...@gmail.com] I'm definitely missing a driver. Can't see the disks with format. Whatever HBA you have ... If it worked under opensolaris and it's not working under openindiana (which is kind of funny) ... Don't you remember installing a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-18 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
Thanks for your suggestion guys. The zpool import -f didn't help BUT so far I had not physically attached the important disks, those with all my digital images. I tried that today and zpool import saw that pool, thank FSM. Now that I'm confident that the disks and pool I really care for are

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-10 Thread Thommy M . Malmström
Gentlemen, you have to be really careful with me here. It's some years since I've touched Solaris. :) I have a file server with several disks and OpenSolaris b125 (iirc). It has hummed away nicely since 2009 or so and I've done nothing except for changing a faulty disk drive. The other day it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-10 Thread James Carlson
On 12/09/12 13:35, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: I have a file server with several disks and OpenSolaris b125 (iirc). It has hummed away nicely since 2009 or so and I've done nothing except for changing a faulty disk drive. The other day it went down and refused to boot. I got a new disk and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-10 Thread Doug Hughes
Have you tried to import the pools by name? Often that will work where discovery isn't so great. On 12/9/2012 1:35 PM, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: Gentlemen, you have to be really careful with me here. It's some years since I've touched Solaris. :) I have a file server with several disks and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-10 Thread Jonathan Adams
On 12/9/2012 1:35 PM, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: Gentlemen, you have to be really careful with me here. It's some years since I've touched Solaris. :) I have a file server with several disks and OpenSolaris b125 (iirc). It has hummed away nicely since 2009 or so and I've done nothing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

2012-12-10 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-12-09 19:35, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: other disks. BUT, when I try to find the zpools on the old disk with zpool import, it says nada. And format only lists one disk besides the boot disk. I believe this is the main symptom, and James made some good suggestions: it seems that the new