[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI hangs early in boot when drives are connected

[Albert Lee]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Tom Fanning <ml at tomfanning.eu> 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