[OpenIndiana-discuss] Finding pools after reinstall

[Thommy M. Malmström]

Thanks for your suggestion guys. The zpool import -f didn't help BUT so far
I had not physically attached the important disks, those with all my
digital images. I tried that today and zpool import saw that pool, thank
FSM.

Now that I'm confident that the disks and pool I really care for are
visible, my question is which OI or other OpenSolaris originated version
You suggest I install for least trouble? I'm open for suggestions and I
have no problems with command line versions. My main wish is long term
reliability. Should I even consider Solaris 11?

/Thommy M.

On 10 December 2012 20:55, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> On 2012-12-09 19:35, Thommy M. Malmström wrote:
>
>> other disks. BUT, when I try to find the zpools on the old disk with zpool
>> import, it says nada. And format only lists one disk besides the boot
>> disk.
>>
>
> I believe this is the main symptom, and James made some good
> suggestions: it seems that the new OS does not see your HBA
> and/or disks. It is possible, for example, because OpenSolaris
> could use some closed-source drivers not provided with illumos
> kernel now (so not with OpenIndiana distro either). Likewise,
> some drivers could be replaced or renamed - though they should
> have found your disks then...
>
> Alternately, some users recently on list had problems with
> their vendors' rebranded LSI HBAs and downloaded the OEM's
> drivers for Solaris.
>
> Is your old (working) installation completely inaccessible?
> You might want to make its copy, upgrade it to OpenSolaris 134b
> and then to OpenIndiana, following the tutorial on OI Wiki.
> What I'd hope for is that if the old OS had the needed drivers,
> the upgrade procedure would inherit them into OI.
>
> Good luck,
> //Jim Klimov
>
>
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