[OpenIndiana-discuss] RAIDZ2 root pool install fun :-(

[Till Wegmueller]

Hi Reg

Try Raidz1, Raidz2 as root had some problems when I tried last. Although 
that was 1-2 years ago. So it might work now. But I have not yet seen 
any installation with RAIDZ2 as root it's quite rare.

-Till

On 19.04.21 18:23, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> I did an install of 2020.10 from a text USB stick on an HP NL40 with a 4x 2 TB RAIDZ2 root pool this morning without any issues.
> 
> My Z840 showed up and things have not gone well.  After a bit of BIOS fubar I was able to create a RAIDZ2 pool, but the pseudo device names were very long.
> 
> /dev/dsk/c0t5000039A7B7002F3d0s0
> /dev/dsk/c0t5000039A7B700305d0s0
> /dev/dsk/c0t5000039A7B700306d0s0
> /dev/dsk/c0t5000039A7B78030Fd0s0
> 
> When the system arrived it had Windows 10 installed.  I booted that and it was OK, so I pulled the disk and installed 4x 4 TB Toshiba X300 disks.
> 
> On boot the Live Image Desktop came up, but I could only see 2 of the 4 disks.  Fiddling with the BIOS eventually got it to see all 4 drives, though at one point format(1m) could not see any disks until I reset the BIOS to factory defaults.
> 
> Now the Desktop won't come up.  If I run the text-installer on the GUI ISO in single user mode  it crashes. Bug #13734.
> 
> The USB text-install ran and installed, but the system doesn't boot.  I've not yet done an installboot to all the disks.  That's next.  If that doesn't work I'll try S11.4.
> 
> The Z840 BIOS is *very* different from the Z400.  But I've successfully installed 2020.10  in a single 5 TB  pool using the GUI DVD and the text-install script on a Z400.
> 
> Reg
> 
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