On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:08 -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > 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. > > Hmm... was checking BIOS version and just found this at Tyan's site for v3.03 notes:
* Fixed post code "75h" problem when using GPT Partition in Solaris 10 This box is sitting at v3.20 and 75 is indeed the error code being rendered so I'll try flashing to latest version and post a follow up. -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
