Well the machine is back up and running.

It seems that one of the drives was in a faulted state - probably a separate 
issue from the power outage. But that drive was configured by the bios to be 
the boot drive, and the system refused to boot off a faulted drive. Instantly 
restarted, repeat.

So a few things seem less than desirable:

* Live DVD not able to boot correctly because of an existing pool in a faulted 
state - resulting in no useful tools for diagnostics.

* If the system drive is mirrored, and the drive which is configured by BIOS to 
boot from is a faulted drive, is there any way for the system to get back up 
and running without a person at the console to change the BIOS setting?

This particular machine is my home backup server, so I'm not too worried about 
it. But if I'm going to roll out a machine in a data centre or remote office 
this could be a real problem.

Thoughts?

Matt.


On 10/02/2012, at 12:23 PM, Gordon Ross wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Matt Connolly
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> 
>> I had a power outage at my house recently and my OpenIndiana backup server 
>> has failed to reboot.
> [...]
>> Does anyone have any ideas on how to do more diagnostics / repairs??
> 
> You might try:
>  zpool import -F $pool
> 
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