I agree with James Dean, there is no need (or indeed, benefit) to use the
psudo-hardware raid. I'm not sure on indiana, but nevada will just install
onto a mirrored zfs now (since snv_91 I think), or you can follow the steps
he outlines:

# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/<rootdev>s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/<mirrordev>
# zpool attach rpool <rootdev>s0 <mirrordev>s0
# installgrub
-m /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/<mirrordev>s0

If it's available, go with letting it install to a zfs mirror; It works
really well, and handles all the swap and dump setup for you. It will also
set it up as close to what I would expect to be considered "best practices"
as possable.

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2008/9/9 Andrew M. Hettinger:
> Yes, I am using this board for iSCSI servers now. I have a mirrored drive
> for booting,

Andrew, thanks! I am seriously considering this board now (gotta love
Intel server boards!)

How are you doing the mirror for the o/s? I am wondering if I can use
the onboard SATA raid features on the motherboard you suggest but I
have a feeling that opensolaris may not support that and only display
the individual drives?
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