Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-15 Thread Stu Whitefish
- Original Message - From: Brian Wilson brian.wil...@doit.wisc.edu To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:57:26 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall! I'm curious - would it work to boot from a live CD, go to shell

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-05 Thread Brian Wilson
On 8/3/2011 5:47 PM, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/ 4/11 01:29 AM, Stuart James Whitefish wrote: I have Solaris on Sparc boxes available if it would help to do a net install or jumpstart. I have never done those and it looks complicated, although I think I may be able to get to the point in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-05 Thread Stuart James Whitefish
Jim wrote: But I may be wrong, and anyway the single user shell in the u9 DVD also panics when I try to import tank so maybe that won't help. Ian wrote: Put your old drive in a USB enclosure and connect it to another system in order to read back the data. Given that update 9 can't import

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-05 Thread Stuart James Whitefish
I'm opening a new thread since the original subject was not as helpful and I saw a similar problem mentioned in May of this year (2011) and others going back to 2009. New thread is found at http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=140899 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-05 Thread Bill
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 03:52:39AM -0700, Stuart James Whitefish wrote: Jim wrote: But I may be wrong, and anyway the single user shell in the u9 DVD also panics when I try to import tank so maybe that won't help. Ian wrote: Put your old drive in a USB enclosure and connect it to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-05 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, Bill wrote: True but I haven't found a way to get an ISO onto a USB that my system can boot from it. I was using DD to copy the iso to the usb drive. Is there some other way? Maybe give http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ a try. This package seems to list support for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-05 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/ 4/11 10:52 PM, Stuart James Whitefish wrote: Ian wrote: Put your old drive in a USB enclosure and connect it to another system in order to read back the data. Given that update 9 can't import the pool is this really worth trying? I would use a newer (express maybe) system. Most

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-03 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
You wrote: Hi Roy, things got alot worse since my first email. I don't know what happened but I can't import the old pool at all. It shows no errors but when I import it I get a kernel panic from assertion failed: zvol_get_stats(os, nv) which looks like is fixed by patch 6801926 which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-03 Thread Stuart James Whitefish
Thanks for your comments so far. I'll try to put everything I know into this post now that I have signed up at the forums. Solaris 10, update 8 Intel, 500G ZFS root mirror rpool. I recently received two 320G drives and realized from reading this list it would have been better if I would have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-03 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/ 4/11 01:29 AM, Stuart James Whitefish wrote: I have Solaris on Sparc boxes available if it would help to do a net install or jumpstart. I have never done those and it looks complicated, although I think I may be able to get to the point in the u9 installer on my Intel box where it asks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-02 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
I am having a problem after a new install of Solaris 10. The installed rpool works fine when I have only those disks connected. When I connect disks from an rpool I created during a previous installation, my newly installed rpool is ignored even though the BIOS (x86) is set to boot only

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-02 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hi Roy, things got alot worse since my first email. I don't know what happened but I can't import the old pool at all. It shows no errors but when I import it I get a kernel panic from assertion failed: zvol_get_stats(os, nv) which looks like is fixed by patch 6801926 which is applied in Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong rpool used after reinstall!

2011-08-02 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) mixmas...@remailer.privacy.at wrote: Hi Roy, things got alot worse since my first email. I don't know what happened but I can't import the old pool at all. It shows no errors but when I import it I get a kernel panic from assertion