Richard Elling writes: > You might check out this thread, as it does not appear to be > a ZFS issue, per se, and there may be a more appropriate forum > to answer the question. > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=234979
Thanks Richard. I guess the ZFS bit is that ZFS root can't boot (not opening the pool?) while UFS can. Ian > > > Ian Collins wrote: >> I wanted to resurrect an old dual P3 system with a couple of IDE drives >> to use as a low power quiet NIS/DHCP/FlexLM server so I tried installing >> ZFS boot from build 90. >> >> The install ran through without issue, creating a mirror pool on the two >> drives. On reboot, I was surprised to see 2 sets of grub entries for >> b90, which I don't see on other system. After the copyright message, >> the system stalled repeatedly reporting ATA errors. These show up on a >> number of drives, so it must be a system issue. >> >> I reinstalled with UFS and the errors still appear, but the system boots >> up OK. It looks like ZFS can't mount the pool due to the errors, but >> UFS can mount. From messages: >> >> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: >> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): >> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0 >> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: >> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): >> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0 >> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: >> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): >> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0 >> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: >> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): >> Jun 28 16:09:19 zack timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0 >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: >> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ata0): >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack timeout: early timeout, target=0 lun=0 >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: >> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL >> PROTECTED],0 (Disk0): >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: >> Informational >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: >> aborted command >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA >> ' error code: 0x3 >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: >> /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL >> PROTECTED],0 (Disk0): >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: >> Informational >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: >> aborted command >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack gda: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor 'Gen-ATA >> ' error code: 0x3 >> Jun 28 16:09:20 zack unix: [ID 557827 kern.info] cpu1 initialization >> complete - online >> >> Ian. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss