Glad you found the hardware fault. It sounded like something was wrong hardware wise. It's the one thing I find annoying about pc gear.. it's fragile and flaky. It's crazy how long SPARC gear lasts. My experience is that if something doesn't fail within the first 3-6 months, the box is set for life. Although, I've actually seen drives fail around the estimated max life span. When I worked at Sun we had a bunch of the old SSA storage arrays and kept 1 and 2GB drives around for spares. We'd look at the grown errors in the format command for each disk and knew around when they'd die. Since most were bought and installed around the same time, they'd usually die within days of eachother.
Daftest thing I've seen is a tape library that drives would keep failing in, even after replacing them. Turned out we need to attach the grounding cable to the chassis, something most ppl never think about doing. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: [email protected] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:43:22 AM Subject: [sysadmin-discuss] SOLVED - Re: ZFS Boot Woes On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 22:31 -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > Octave Orgeron wrote: > > 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. > > > > > MB boots another OS on different drive. Disconnecting OpenSolaris hd still > doesn't let me boot liveCD, but I can boot to e.g. OpenBSD CD just fine. > > I can sometimes boot to -m milestone=none, but not consistently, so sure > sounds like hd, but... I don't think it's a HD issue, otherwise why cannot I > boot liveCD when HD is disconnected? > > Ideas?? > > btw- box is also connected to UPS so that should preclude power outage/crash > corruption. I've subsequently determined that some RAM decided to spontaneously go wonky. Problem solved. Thanks to Octave for the nudge to get me thinking about hardware issues. Peace-- Ken -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
