Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-12 Thread David L Kensiski
On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi David, In general, an I/O error means that the slice 0 doesn't exist or some other problem exists with the disk. Which makes complete sense because the partition table on the replacement didn't have anything specified for slice 0.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-12 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi David, Make sure you test booting from the newly attached disk and update the BIOS, if necessary. The boot process occurs over several stages. I'm not sure what the zfs_stage1_5 file provides but is the first two that we need for booting. For more details, go to this site:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-11 Thread David L Kensiski
At Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:28:40 -0800 Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hey list, Grant says his system is hanging after the zpool replace on a v240, running Solaris 10 5/09, 4 GB of memory, and no ongoing snapshots. No errors from zpool replace so it sounds like the disk was physically replaced

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-11 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi David, In general, an I/O error means that the slice 0 doesn't exist or some other problem exists with the disk. The installgrub command is like this: # installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 Thanks, Cindy On 03/11/10 15:45, David L Kensiski wrote: At Wed, 10

[zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-10 Thread Grant Lowe
Please help me out here. I've got a V240 with the root drive, c2t0d0 mirrored to c2t1d0. The mirror is having problems, and I'm unsure of the exact procedure to pull the mirrored drive. I see in various googling: zpool replace rpool c2t1d0 c2t1d0 or I've seen simply: zpool replace rpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-10 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Grant, I don't have a v240 to test but I think you might need to unconfigure the disk first on this system. So I would follow the more complex steps. If this is a root pool, then yes, you would need to use the slice identifier, and make sure it has an SMI disk label. After the zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-10 Thread Grant Lowe
cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: From: Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@sun.com Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk To: Grant Lowe gl...@sbcglobal.net Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 1:09 PM Hi Grant, I don't have a v240 to test

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk

2010-03-10 Thread Cindy Swearingen
as this is production! Even an IM would be helpful. --- On Wed, 3/10/10, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: From: Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@sun.com Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing a failed/failed mirrored root disk To: Grant Lowe gl...@sbcglobal.net Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Date