Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer, Sorry for your trouble. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as well. Perhaps it also deserves a mention in the FAQ somewhere near

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Mike Gerdts wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer, Sorry for your trouble. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as well. Perhaps it also deserves a mention in the FAQ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland)
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) wrote: Mike Gerdts wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer, Sorry for your trouble. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Charles Meeks
Hoping this is not too off topic.Can anyone confirm you can break a mirrored zfs root pool once formed. I basically want to clone a boot drive, take it to another piece of identical hardware and have two machines ( or more ). I am running indiana b93 on x86 hardware. I have read

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-24 Thread Boyd Adamson
Enda O'Connor ( Sun Micro Systems Ireland) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [..] meant to add that on x86 the following should do the trick ( again I'm open to correction ) installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /zfsroot/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 haven't tested the z86 one though. I used

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Elling
Rainer Orth wrote: Rainer Orth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: instlalboot on the new disk and see if that fixes it. Unfortunately, it didn't. Reconsidering now, I see that I ran installboot against slice 0 (reduced by 1 sector as required by CR 6680633) instead of slice 2 (whole

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-23 Thread Rainer Orth
Richard Elling writes: I've found out what the problem was: I didn't specify the -F zfs option to installboot, so only half of the ZFS bootblock was written. This is a combination of two documentation bugs and a terrible interface: Mainly because there is no -F option? Huh? From

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-23 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Rainer, Sorry for your trouble. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as well. Mark, I don't have an x86 system to test right now, can you send me the correct installgrub syntax for booting a ZFS file system?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-23 Thread Rainer Orth
Cindy, Sorry for your trouble. no problem. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as well. Great, thanks. Rainer - Rainer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-23 Thread Mark J Musante
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rainer, Sorry for your trouble. I'm updating the installboot example in the ZFS Admin Guide with the -F zfs syntax now. We'll fix the installboot man page as well. Mark, I don't have an x86 system to test right now, can you send me the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-23 Thread Richard Elling
Rainer Orth wrote: Richard Elling writes: I've found out what the problem was: I didn't specify the -F zfs option to installboot, so only half of the ZFS bootblock was written. This is a combination of two documentation bugs and a terrible interface: Mainly because there is

[zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-22 Thread Rainer Orth
I just wanted to attach a second mirror to a ZFS root pool on an Ultra 1/170E running snv_93. I've followed the workarounds for CR 6680633 and 6680633 from the ZFS Admin Guide, but booting from the newly attached mirror fails like so: Boot device: disk File and args:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-22 Thread Mark J Musante
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Rainer Orth wrote: I just wanted to attach a second mirror to a ZFS root pool on an Ultra 1/170E running snv_93. I've followed the workarounds for CR 6680633 and 6680633 from the ZFS Admin Guide, but booting from the newly attached mirror fails like so: I think you're

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cannot attach mirror to SPARC zfs root pool

2008-07-22 Thread Rainer Orth
Mark J Musante writes: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Rainer Orth wrote: I just wanted to attach a second mirror to a ZFS root pool on an Ultra 1/170E running snv_93. I've followed the workarounds for CR 6680633 and 6680633 from the ZFS Admin Guide, but booting from the newly attached mirror