[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to replace failed rpool mirror disk?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:

> The wiki should be online again.

Thanks!  Now that I see the Wiki page at 
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/2.1+Post-installation

Looking back in my terminal history I see that I did speculatively 
follow the instructions (guessed) and did this:

"
format> fdisk
No fdisk table exists. The default partition for the disk is:

   a 100% "SOLARIS System" partition

Type "y" to accept the default partition,  otherwise type "n" to edit 
the
  partition table.
y
"

For some reason the previously existing disk says that it is using a 
partition of type EFI (which it seems that fdisk creates when given 
the -E option) rather than Solaris.  The partitioning is clearly 
different.

So I got an error when I did this:

weerd:~# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c5t1d0s2
Partition 0 not aligned on cylinder boundary: "       0     12    00 
256    524288    524543"

It seems that either I need to make this new disk also use EFI 
partitioning, or manually create compatible partitioning in the 
Solaris fdisk partition so that it can support the boot record and zfs 
pool.

What is the best approach to solve this?

Bob
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