David Elefante wrote:
I had this happen on three different motherboards. So it seems that there
should be a procedure in the documentation that states if your BIOS doesn't
support EFI labels than you need to write ZFS to a partition (slice) not the
overlay, causing the BIOS to hang on reading the drive on boot up. Most PC
bios do not support EFI at this point, so this can impact the larger community.
Having that documentation would have saved me 30 hours at least, and I only
hope that you take this as positive feedback and integrate it into the doc set.
I have ZFS working on my Ultra 20 just fine, and that is what confused me when
I was working with my x86 box. It says that EFI is not supported on IDE disks
(SATA drive), but I'm assuming that this has changed.
From the sol9 doc set:
You shouldn't be using the Solaris *9* doc set. Use the Solaris 10 docs,
specifically:
Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection >>
System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems >>
11. Managing Disks (Overview) >>
What's New in Disk Management in the Solaris 10 Release?
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093
and
Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection >>
Solaris ZFS Administration Guide >>
4. Managing ZFS Storage Pools >>
Components of a ZFS Storage Pool
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461
Also, please pester your mobo vendor to get with the times... :-)
-- richard
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