[OpenIndiana-discuss] How is this possible?

[Reginald Beardsley]

I'd been working on a script to reformat disk error messages from /var/adm/messages to the logical device name and had done a "devfsadm -C -c disk" with the scratch pool disk out of the system. Naturally when I put it back in, the system couldn't find it.

At this point it is unclear if the MB, cage or both are bad. The current configuration only has the disks from the original system installed. Everything else has been replaced.

It's possible that the replacement disk is bad. It had been sitting unopened for 4 years, but that doesn't guarantee it's good. I'm testing the disk I pulled just in case it's OK and the problem was the cage or MB.

Reg

     On Monday, April 5, 2021, 06:55:48 PM CDT, Reginald Beardsley <pulaskite at yahoo.com> wrote:  
 
 If I come up in single user mode aka "fail safe", I can see all 3 system pools and import them.  Two don't mount  properly because / is read only, but I can scrub them all without any problems.  I suppose -R would fix that, but it really didn't seem important.  I just wanted to scrub the pools.

But when I boot multiuser I can't find one of the 3 pools. "zpool import" doesn't report it and "zpool -f import spool" produces a "no such pool" message.

I've been swapping hardware a good bit, but this is beyond weird.

I keep looking to see if Rod Serling is standing near by smoking a cigarette.

Reg