I may be completely off piste here, but here goes....
From memory and not having an x86 system booted at the moment to double check:
You don't need to mess around with partitioning at all. You do need to label the
disk though (which is annoying). So your first format, when it asked you whether
or not to label, just say yes, write the label and exit.
Assuming your rpool is currently running as a single disk (it's an x86 system
and you have physically removed the old disk prior to boot), you just attach a
mirror to the rpool.
I'm not entirely sure if writing a bootblock is required, I have always done so,
but am wondering if the mirror attach already does that for you, but as someone
else pointed out earlier, it doesn't hurt to re-write it.
HTH
Eric
On 2021-01-17 23:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, Gary Mills wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 02:11:18PM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
I assume your replacement succeeded.
I hope so!
There are more details in the detail section, but perhaps I must assume that
all is ok with the boot loader. It is even possible that zfs arranged to
install the boot loader on the disk automatically.
To be sure all is okay, try booting from one disk and then the other.
The BIOS on this SuperMicro system is not terribly helpful so I am not quite
sure how to do that other than pulling drives.
After a power outage where the system was down for maybe 15 minutes, it failed
to boot properly.
There was a failing boot drive still installed which I had mostly ignored
other than disabling it. But the BIOS and boot loader did not seem to know
that it was disabled and tried to slowly boot from it. Another anomally was
that it appeared that the BIOS (or something) was causing all of the data on
all the disks to be read in turn before booting. I have never seen anything
like it before.
By physically removing the flaky boot drive and popping out the hot-swap
drives, I got the system to boot. I found that one of the hot-swap drives no
longer spun up. The BIOS and boot loader did not handle this well.
Bob
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