[OpenIndiana-discuss] System will not boot, boot-archive fails

[Nikola M]

If drives had beed set as JBOD (on disk format not related to disk 
controller)
then drives themselves should work on any machine and controller and OS 
using OpenZFS.

Of course, it is best not to have SAS/SATA expanders and to use SAS 
controller for SAS and SATA for SATA.

I would Leave all disks in and try to import with some another install 
of both Openindiana, other illumos distro or even FreBSD and Linux with 
ZFSOnLinux.

You can install OI Hipster in VirtualBox and then do zfs send/receive 
system and user datasets to the main system disk/rpool to newly made and 
empied BE. That way you can also boot OI Hipster and see if importing 
behaves differently with newest illumos.
I bet it's some hardware failure to aether controller, expanders and/or 
disk(s).

On 09/23/15 11:12 AM, Richard Patterson wrote:
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> Ok, I identified the possibly faulty drives, and took them out. (Doing
> a full test on them in another box)
>
> Trying to import the backups zpool without the 2 drives (raidz2 so
> should be ok):
>
> zpool import -f backups
>
> Hangs the server after about 10 mins. (I had top running, and it's
> stopped updating)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
> On 22/09/2015 10:21, Richard Patterson wrote:
>> Ok, I removed the controller again, booted it up fine, changed
>> time-out to 180.
>>
>> Removed the backups zpool (zfs export), shutdown and re-installed
>> the controller.
>>
>> Booted up fine.
>>
>> zfs import -f backups
>>
>> ^^Hangs at this point.
>>
>> A while ago, i had a script running in cron to report on zpool
>> status, etc.
>>
>> I must admit, my checking of the reports was a bit lax of late, and
>> I found the last few had this in the status:
>>
>> NAME                       STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM backups
>> ONLINE       0     0     0 raidz2-0                 ONLINE       0
>> 0     0 c3t50014EE6AEEE4A0Bd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>> c3t50014EE6AEEE5C8Bd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>> c3t50014EE0591526CAd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>> c3t50014EE659992C01d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>> c3t50014EE6599926FBd0  ONLINE       0     0    12
>> c3t50014EE65999205Fd0  ONLINE       0     0     4
>> c3t50014EE659992081d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>> c3t50014EE659993822d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>
>> So, looks like I might have at least 1 failed disk... will need to
>> try to identify the failed one(s), and pull it / them out.
>>
>> Thanks so far, I'll update when I've had a chance to pull the
>> faulty disk(s).
>>
>>
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