[OpenIndiana-discuss] Boot failure - degraded boot pool

[Matt Connolly]

On 11/02/2012, at 12:49, Mark Creamer <whitetr6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you have a mirrored set for your OS (rpool) you can configure it so the
> failure of either one of those two drives will cause the system to boot
> automatically from the other. Google mirrored rpool. I think I found my
> instructions on Constantin Gonzales' site IIRC

I had done all these steps. The problem really was that the drive was "available" to the BIOS (not a total drive failure) but marked as "faulted" by zfs so it wouldn't boot off it. 


> On Friday, February 10, 2012, Matt Connolly <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Well the machine is back up and running.
>> 
>> It seems that one of the drives was in a faulted state - probably a
> separate issue from the power outage. But that drive was configured by the
> bios to be the boot drive, and the system refused to boot off a faulted
> drive. Instantly restarted, repeat.
>> 
>> So a few things seem less than desirable:
>> 
>> * Live DVD not able to boot correctly because of an existing pool in a
> faulted state - resulting in no useful tools for diagnostics.
>> 
>> * If the system drive is mirrored, and the drive which is configured by
> BIOS to boot from is a faulted drive, is there any way for the system to
> get back up and running without a person at the console to change the BIOS
> setting?
>> 
>> This particular machine is my home backup server, so I'm not too worried
> about it. But if I'm going to roll out a machine in a data centre or remote
> office this could be a real problem.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Matt.
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/02/2012, at 12:23 PM, Gordon Ross wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Matt Connolly
>>> <matt.connolly.au at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear list,
>>>> 
>>>> I had a power outage at my house recently and my OpenIndiana backup
> server has failed to reboot.
>>> [...]
>>>> Does anyone have any ideas on how to do more diagnostics / repairs??
>>> 
>>> You might try:
>>> zpool import -F $pool
>>> 
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