[OpenIndiana-discuss] How do I swiych from IDE to AHCI mode for my SATA disks, please vet my procedure!

[Hans J. Albertsson]

And since I haven't really changed my HW, reconfigure shouldn't be 
needed, or???
On 2013-03-19 01:30, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-03-18 19:51, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>> I'm unclear about some of your answers.. interfoliating my questions.
>>
>> But, can I interpret your answer to overall be that one should not have
>> to do more than:
>>
>> set BIOS to AHCI mode for the SATA controllers
>> boot liveDVD
>> as superuser (sudo su in a live dvd terminal)
>>      "zpool import -f rpool"
>>      "zpool export rpool"
>> reboot
>>
>> for any reasonably recent Intel based server motherboard (mine is a
>> Supermicro X7SBi)?
>
>
> Yes, I guess so. I reviewed a number of threads I took part in on the
> ZFS mailing lists, one reasonable (aggregated) suggestion was to do
>
> zpool import -R /mnt -f -N rpool
>
> -R allows to skip use of zpool.cache and have no conflicts with
> existing (live) OS
> -N allows to not mount and share FSes which can take long and you
> don't need in this case anyway
> -f you know - the force...
>
> PS: This should work for AMD-based motherboards, too ;)
>
> //Jim
>
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