[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems installing grub

[cwjordanoi at cox.net]

Google suggests that when you see that error you need to fdisk before you fmthard.  See http://malsserver.blogspot.com/2008/08/mirroring-resolved-correct-way.html :

> before doing the fmthard, you have to do fdisk on the new drive.
> In my case, I did 'pfexec fdisk /dev/rdsk/c4t1d0s2', it complained, I said yes then everything was fine.
> If you skip this step, you'll get:
> fmthard: Partition 2 specifies the full disk and is not equal
> and later:
> "Partition 0 of the disk has an incorrect offset"

worth a try...

Chris Jordan
cwjordanoi at cox.net

---- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy at karlsbakk.net> wrote: 
> Hi all

One of the rpool drives on this server died the other day, so I got a replacement that was 1 cylinder larger (60798 vs 60797). Still, I tried

prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c7d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c6d0s2

zpool replace worked and the pool resilvered within a few minutes. Now, installing grub fails.

root at prv-backup:~# installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c6d0s0
Partition 0 of the disk has an incorrect offset
Unable to gather device information for /dev/rdsk/c6d0s0

Can thie be because of a bad partition table? Any idae how to fix this properly?

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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