Are you trying to install on a disk with EFI label?
Solaris Installer doesn't support EFI label.

-Narendra


On 8/22/07, Richard <rthorntn at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a Supermicro PDSGE with an AMI BIOS, I have UFS boot disk connected
> via IDE and a ZFS pool comprising 4 x 400GB entire disks on the SATA ports.
>
> After I created the ZFS pool the BIOS freezes after the SATA disks are
> detected, this is because the EFI label is not recognised by the BIOS,
> removing the disks allows the system to boot.
>
> Is there a workaround that I can use, I read you could set the SATA
> devices in the BIOS to "None", will Solaris still see the disks if I do
> this?
>
> I would like to be able to boot and have a ZFS pool using the entire
> disks.
>
> I have emailed Supermicro for help also.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Kind Regards
> Richard
>
>
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