On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 03:52:39AM -0700, Stuart James Whitefish wrote: > Jim wrote: > > >> But I may be wrong, and anyway the single user shell in the u9 DVD also > >> panics when I try to import tank so maybe that won't help. > > Ian wrote: > > > Put your old drive in a USB enclosure and connect it > > to another system in order to read back the data. > > Given that update 9 can't import the pool is this really worth trying? > I would have to buy the enclosures, if I had them already I would have tried > it in > desperation. > > Jim wrote: > > > > I have only 4 sata ports on this Intel box so I have to keep pulling > > > cables to be > > > able to boot from a DVD and then I won't have all my drives available. I > > > cannot > > > move these drives to any other box because they are consumer drives and > > > my > > > servers all have ultras. > > Ian wrote: > > > Most modern boards will be boot from a live USB > > stick. > > True but I haven't found a way to get an ISO onto a USB that my system can > boot from it. I was using DD to copy the iso to the usb drive. Is there some > other way?
Maybe give http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ a try. Bill > > This is really frustrating. I haven't had any problems with Linux filesystems > but I heard ZFS was safer. It's really ironic that I lost access to so much > data after moving it to ZFS. Isn't there any way to get them back on my newly > installed U8 system? If I disconnect this pool the system starts fine. > Otherwise my questions above in my summary post might be key to getting this > working. > > Thanks, > Jim > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > 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
