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]>

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