On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:13 -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > 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. >
That seems to have done the trick. Apologies to the list for not having checked for BIOS updates before posting in the first place. -- Ken Gunderson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
