On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Michael Schuster <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:59, Tom Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Albert Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Tom Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> oi-dev-147-text-x86.usb hangs at the start of the boot at "All rights >>>> reserved. Use is subject to license terms" when my SATA drives (4x >>>> 1TB) are plugged in. >>>> >>>> If I unplug the drives, the machine boots. >>>> >>>> Where do I start with this one? My hardware is an Atom D510 on a >>>> Gigabyte GA-D510UD board. >>>> >>>> Drives are known good and contain an exported zpool (from FreeBSD) >>>> which I intend to import and upgrade. >>>> >>> >>> I suspect your pool's constituent devices have no GPT (EFI label) as >>> required by Solaris/OpenIndiana ZFS, as FreeBSD does not enforce this >>> requirement when creating pools. The failure mode is rather odd, >>> though. >>> >>> -Albert >>> >> >> >> Hi Albert, >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> Can I safely add a GPT to these drives retrospectively? > > as I understand GPT, you can't - it's the description of how the disk > is partitioned ("divvied up"), and is quite different from the > traditional "MBR"-style partition table. changing this type will lose > all data on the disk. > > HTH > Michael
Thanks. So what we're saying is that I can't migrate these drives from FreeBSD to OpenIndiana/Solaris without flattening them. Bummer. Tom _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
