[zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2007-03-09 Thread Gwen
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-30 Thread Casper . Dik
>All with the same problem. I disabled the onboard nvidia nforce 410/430 >raid bios in the bios in all cases. Now whether it actually does not look >for a signature, I do not know. I'm attempting to make this box into an >iSCSI target for my ESX environments. I can put W3K and SanMelody on ther

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-30 Thread Jonathan Edwards
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs I suspect a lack of an MBR could cause some BIOS implementations to barf .. Why? Zeroed disks don't have that issue either. What appears to be happening is more that raid controllers attempt to interpret the data in the EFI labe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-30 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Nov 29, 2006, at 13:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect a lack of an MBR could cause some BIOS implementations to barf .. Why? Zeroed disks don't have that issue either. you're right - I was thinking that a lack of an MBR with a GPT could be causing problems, but actually it loo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-29 Thread Casper . Dik
>I suspect a lack of an MBR could cause some BIOS implementations to >barf .. Why? Zeroed disks don't have that issue either. What appears to be happening is more that raid controllers attempt to interpret the data in the EFI label as the proprietary "hardware raid" labels. At least, it seem

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-29 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a problem since how can anyone use ZFS on a PC??? My motherboard is a newly minted AM2 w/ all the latest firmware. I disabled boot detection on the sata channels and it still refuses to boot. I had to purchase an external SATA e

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-29 Thread Casper . Dik
>This is a problem since how can anyone use ZFS on a PC??? My motherboard is a >newly minted AM2 w/ all the latest firmware. I disabled boot detection on the sata channels and it still refuses to b oot. I had to purchase an external SATA enclosure to fix the drives. This seems to me to be a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-29 Thread James McPherson
On 11/30/06, David Elefante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had the same thing happen to me twice on my x86 box. I installed ZFS (RaidZ) on my enclosure with four drives and upon reboot the bios hangs upon detection of the newly EFI'd drives. I've already RMA'd 4 drives to seagate and the new batc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-29 Thread Toby Thain
On 29-Nov-06, at 9:30 AM, David Elefante wrote: I had the same thing happen to me twice on my x86 box. I installed ZFS (RaidZ) on my enclosure with four drives and upon reboot the bios hangs upon detection of the newly EFI'd drives. ... This seems to me to be a serious problem. Indeed

[zfs-discuss] Re: system wont boot after zfs

2006-11-29 Thread David Elefante
I had the same thing happen to me twice on my x86 box. I installed ZFS (RaidZ) on my enclosure with four drives and upon reboot the bios hangs upon detection of the newly EFI'd drives. I've already RMA'd 4 drives to seagate and the new batch was frozen as well. I was suspecting my enclosure,