On Mar 11, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Bart Smaalders wrote: > Frank Bottone wrote: >> I'm using the latest build of opensolaris express available from >> opensolaris.org. >> >> I had no problems with the install (its an AMD64 x2 3800+, 1gb >> physical ram, 1 ide drive for the os and 4*250GB sata drives attached >> to the motherboard - nforce based chipset). >> >> I create a zfs pool on the 4 sata drives as a raidZ and the pool >> works >> fine. If I reboot with any of the 4 drives connected the system hangs >> right after all the drives are detected on the post screen. I need to >> put them in a different system and zero them with dd in order to be >> able to reconnect them to my server and still have the system boot >> properly. >> >> Any ideas on how I can get around this? It seems like the onboard >> system itself is getting confused by the metadata ZFS is adding to >> the >> drive. The system already has the latest available bios from the >> manufacturer - I'm not using any hardware raid of any sort. >> > > This is likely the BIOS getting confused by the EFI label on the > disks. Since there's no newer BIOS available there are two ways > around this problem: 1) put a normal label on the disk and > give zfs slice 2, or 2) don't have the BIOS do auto-detect on those > drives. Many BIOSs let you select None for the disk type; this will > allow the system to boot. Solaris has no problem finding the > drives even w/o the BIOSs help... >
See if a BIOS update is available as well? > - Bart > > -- > Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts > "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." > _______________________________________________ > 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
