okay this was meant to go to the list... i thought i had, its a work around to the problem.
that people can use untill Sun engineers fix it. James ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 27, 2006 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Life after the pool party To: Wes Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Solved.. well at least a work around. had to boot another version of Solaris, 9 in this case, and used format -e to wipe the efi label, so this is a bug, not sure if its a duplicate of one of the numerous other efi bugs on this list so I will let one of the zfs guys determine how best to handle the bug reports. Solaris express b39 is now happy and is installing as expected. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com On 5/27/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/27/06, Wes Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try the directions in the previous posted link....using the Solaris 'format' command. > tried them repeatly there must be a bug in b39 that keeps format from overwriting an efi it gives warning: error setting drive geomerty warning: error writing vtoc label failed the disk is in perfect shap.. has completed numerous format verify cycles and zfs checks... writing then rereading all blocks no errors not even a chksum error... even smartctl reports only soft errors that were corrected.. no physical defects James > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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