Hmm.. if you're sata drive is hot-plug, disconnect it and boot with the liveCD, 
then connect it. See if you can access the drive that way. It may be a 
defective drive and gone bust. Or worse, the mainboard has a fault.

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Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com
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----- Original Message ----
From: Ken Gunderson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:46:48 PM
Subject: [sysadmin-discuss] ZFS Boot Woes

Hello People:

I've been using OS-2008.11 +/- happily since release.  Today when I came back 
to my box it was in a reboot loop.  I'm unable to boot to single user, debug 
kernel ( -kd flag goes to debug mode, but then I've no keyboard ), etc.  Won't 
even boot from live CD anymore, wh/it always has in the past.  Hardware is a 
Tyan 2865 AMD64 mainboard that's never been problematic with Solaris.  Passing 
an -s -v, the boot process probes hardware, gets to probing mounts, then 
recycles to bios.  At least as best as I can tell as fast as it's flying by.  
So, it seems something is horked on boot environment or ZFS rpool?  I'm pretty 
unfamiliar with Open/Solaris, so any pointers on where to go from here would be 
appreciated.


TIA-- Ken
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