Hello: I've got an Opteron box w/two SATA drives in it (WD Raptors). I wrote zeros to the drives via dd prior to installing latest OS release onto drive 1, and then created an additional ZFS pool on drive 2 via:
zpool create tank /dev/dsk/cxtxdx The pool was automagically mounted at /tank. Upon reboot, the system hangs at BIOS after drive detection. Unplugging the 2nd drive and restarting with only drive 1 connected and OS will boot. Trying to start the box with drive 2 only, however, and it hangs at BIOS after drive detection. The BIOS will accept keyboard input for both BOOT or SETUP options, but just hangs. Seems like it might be choking on the EFI label? I'd like to at least be able to boot to shell on e.g. OBSD install and write zero to the 2nd disk, but the box just hangs after BIOS probes and detects drives. Ideas?? Box is built on a Tyan K8E mainboard, which typically has great compatibility. -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
