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

[Tom Fanning]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Michael Schuster
<michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 11:59, Tom Fanning <ml at tomfanning.eu> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Albert Lee <trisk at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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