Hello.
I have a machine at home on which I have SXCE B96 installed on a root
zpool mirror. It's been working great until yesterday. The root pool
is a mirror with two identical 160GB disks. The other day I added a
third disk to the mirror, a 250 GB disk. Soon after, the third disk
developed some hardware problem and this is now preventing the system
from booting from the root pool. It panics early on and reboots.
I'm trying to repair the system by dropping into single user mode
after booting from a DVD-ROM. I had to yank the third disk in order
for the machine to boot successfully at all. However, in single user
mode I'm so far unable to do anything useful with the pool. Using
"zpool import" the pool is listed as being DEGRADED, with one device
being UNAVAILABLE (cannot open). The pool is also shown to be last
accessed by another system. All this is as expected. Any command
other than "zpool import" knows nothing about the pool "rpool", e.g.
"zpool status". Assuming I have to import the pool before doing
anything like detaching any bad devices I try importing it using
"zpool import -f rpool". This displays an error:
cannot import 'rpool': one or more devices is currently unavailable
At this point I'm stuck. I can't boot from the pool and I can't
access the pool after booting into single user mode from a DVD-ROM.
Does anyone have any advice on how to repair my system?
Krister
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