On 11/02/2012, at 12:49, Mark Creamer <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have a mirrored set for your OS (rpool) you can configure it so the > failure of either one of those two drives will cause the system to boot > automatically from the other. Google mirrored rpool. I think I found my > instructions on Constantin Gonzales' site IIRC
I had done all these steps. The problem really was that the drive was "available" to the BIOS (not a total drive failure) but marked as "faulted" by zfs so it wouldn't boot off it. > On Friday, February 10, 2012, Matt Connolly <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > > -- > Mark > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
