You wrote: > > > > Hi Roy, things got alot worse since my first email. I don't know what > > happened but I can't import the old pool at all. It shows no errors but when > > I import it I get a kernel panic from assertion failed: zvol_get_stats(os, > > nv) which looks like is fixed by patch 6801926 which is applied in Solaris > > 10u9. But I cannot boot update 9 on this box! I tried Solaris Express, none > > of those will run right either. They all go into maintenance mode. The last > > thing I can boot is update 8 and that is the one with the ZFS bug. > > If they go into maintenance mode but could recognize the disk, you > should still be able to do zfs stuff (zpool import, etc). If you're > lucky you'd only miss the GUI
Thank you for your comments. This is pretty frustrating. Unfortunately I'm hitting another bug I saw on the net. Once the Express Live CD or text installer falls back to maintenance mode, I keep getting a msg bash: /usr/bin/hostname command not found (from memory, may not be exact). All ZFS commands fail with this message. I don't know what causes this and I'm surprised since Solaris 10 update 8 works mostly fine on the same hardware. I would expect support to get wider not less but the opposite seems to be happening because I can't install update 9 on this machine. > > I have 200G of files I deliberately copied to this new mirror and now I > > can't get at them! Any ideas? > > Another thing you can try (albeit more complex) is use another OS > (install, or even use a linux Live CD), install virtualbox or similar > on it, pass the disk as raw vmdk, and use solaris express on the VM. > You should be able to at least import the pool and recover the data. I didn't think I would be able to use raw disks with exported pools in a VM but your comment is interesting. I will consider it. The host is bootable, it just immediately panics upon trying to import the 2nd pool. Is there some way I can force a normal boot where my root pool is mounted but it doesn't mount the other pool? If so I could install VirtualBox and try your suggestion without moving the drives to another box. Aren't there any ZFS recovery tools, or is ZFS just not expected to break? I mentioned I can boot the update 9 installer, but it fails when trying to read media from the DVD because of a lack of nvidia drivers (documented limitation) I wonder if I can do some kind of network or jumpstart install. I have no other Solaris Intel boxes (and this post should explain some of the reasons why) but I have several Solaris Sparc boxes. I haven't gone through the doc on net/jumpstart installs, there is alot to read. But maybe this would get update 9 on that box and maybe it could import the pool. Are there any other Solaris based live CD or DVD I could try that have known, good ZFS support? I will need something where I can scp/rcp/rsync the data off that box, assuming that I can import it somehow. Thanks, Jim _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
