[OpenIndiana-discuss] problem replacing a disk by a bigger one: not yet solved

Fri Jul 1 10:09:08 UTC 2022

> On 1. Jul 2022, at 11:24, Marc Lobelle <marc.lobelle at uclouvain.be> wrote:
> 
> I think I know where the problem is: "# bootadm install-bootloader -P rpool " installs what is needed to boot in UEFI mode and this is not possible on a computer that can be dual booted with windows, even in my case where openindiana and windows are on 2 different ssd. And this operation made all the disks in rpool unbootable on this system. I should probably have run"# bootadm install-bootloader -Mf -P rpool " to force installation of a "legacy" MDB boot.
> 
> So, at this point, the only way to run openindiana on the system to fix this issue is running it from the installation dvd. However, if I type zpool list on that, I do not see any pool even if I boot it with reconfigure. How can I install the booting stuff on the internal disk of the system from an openidiana running on the installation dvd. Some versions of bootadm allow specifying the device on which to install the booting  stuff, but not the bootdm on openindiana.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Marc

At this time,we do not have an access to EFI runtime functions, so, we only do install boot loader as generic efi application (<ESP>/boot/bootx64.efi). If you have dual/multiboot setupand have this binary from some other OS, you need to make backup of it first, then after bootloader install/update,you need to create alternate locationfor it, like <ESP>/boot/illumos/ and create UEFIboot manager configuration in firmware setup and restore the original bootx64.efi.

The problem is without an access to EFI RT functions, we can not access/create efi bootmanager variables, and thats why we do use default.

Please note, every pkg update may also update the boot loader (depending on if the bootloader has received some change - see installboot -i).

Also, bootadm does internally use installboot, and we do install boot support for both UEFI and BIOS boot.

rgds,
toomas

> 
> On 6/28/22 10:38, Marc Lobelle wrote:
>> Hello, more information below on this problem
>> 
>> On 6/27/22 17:33, Marc Lobelle wrote:
>>> Hello
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help._/I also found a good step by step guide at https://omnios.org/info/migrate_rpool. /_(There are other ones, but over 10 years old) The only change I had to make was using the guid for the source disk and the complete real path name to the new device ( even /dev/dsk/..., which is a symlink did not work) in zpool attach. The need to use the GUID is a known old bug that was supposed to have been fixed. I do not know why I had the use the full pathname of the new disk. Maybe it is due to the fact that the new disk was connected to a usb adaptor.
>> 
>> So what I did is
>> 
>> # zpool attach rpool 9083243097870587132 /devices/pci at 0,0/pci103c,807c at 14/storage at d/disk at 0,0:q
>> 
>> # bootadm install-bootloader -P rpool
>> 
>>> 
>>> However my bios could not boot from this usb disk when I tried to place it in the internal slot, so I rebooted the old internal disk, with the usb disk connected . Then I detached old internal disk and now the notebook runs on the external disk.
>> 
>> # zpool detach rpool c6t0d0s0
>> 
>> 
>> # zpool status
>>   pool: rpool
>>  state: ONLINE
>>   scan: resilvered 30,5M in 0 days 00:00:01 with 0 errors on Mon Jun 27 16:30:25 2022
>> config:
>> 
>>         NAME STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>>         rpool ONLINE       0     0     0
>> /devices/pci at 0,0/pci103c,807c at 14/storage at d/disk at 0,0:q ONLINE 0     0     0
>> 
>> errors: No known data errors
>> 
>>   pool: szpool
>>  state: ONLINE
>>   scan: none requested
>> config:
>> 
>>         NAME           STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>>         szpool         ONLINE       0     0     0
>>           /dev/lofi/1  ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 
>> errors: No known data errors
>> 
>>> 
>>> Of course, my aim is to put the new inside the notebook at the place where the old one was.
>>> 
>>> I assume that there are probably things to change in the new disk before putting it in the notebook.
>>> 
>>> Besides, now that the old internal disk has been detached, can I still reboot the computer with only the old internal disk
>>> 
>>> My current situation is thus that I booted from the internal disk, attached the external one and detached the internal one (at this point everything runs fine)
>>> 
>>> My two questions are thus:
>> 
>>> 1. Now that I have detached the disk inside the computer, can I still
>>>    reboot with only this disk ? i.e. may I stop the computer, remove the usb disk that is now the only one remaining from the mirror consisting of the internal and the external disk. ie does the boot know that his disk is not part of the mirror ?
>> 
>>> 2. Do I have to change something in the new disk to connect it as sata
>>>    drive rather than as usb drive and boot the system from it ?
>>> 
>>> Thanks, I wait for your advice before risking to turn off the notebook
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> Marc
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 6/26/22 23:46, Marc Lobelle wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>> 
>>>> In tried to replace the ssd of my notebook running openindiana (120G) by a bigger one (1T).
>>>> 
>>>> I first copied the small ssd on the big one: I connected the big disk on a usb adapter, ran format to identify the two devices then
>>>> 
>>>> dd if=/dev/rdsk/c6t0d0p0 of=/dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 bs=2048K
>>>> 
>>>> then I replaced the small internal disk by the big one.
>>>> 
>>>> However, when booting, I got the following message
>>>> 
>>>>    ZFS:i/o error - all block copies unavailable
>>>> 
>>>>    ZFS: Can't read MOS of pool rpool
>>>> 
>>>>    Can't find /boot/loader
>>>> 
>>>>    Can't find /boot/zfsloader
>>>> 
>>>>    illumos/x86 boot
>>>> 
>>>>    Default: /boot/loader
>>>> 
>>>>    boot:
>>>> 
>>>> if I type <enter>, I get
>>>> 
>>>>    Can't find /boot/loader
>>>> 
>>>>    illumos/x86 boot
>>>> 
>>>>    Default: /boot/loader
>>>> 
>>>>    boot:
>>>> 
>>>> How can I fix this ? (without reinstalling everything if possible;-) (after that I plan of course to grow the fs to the whole disk)
>>>> 
>>>> Marc
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