[OpenIndiana-discuss] After locked up zpool scrub, BIOS not recognizing HDDs to boot

Toomas Soome tsoome at me.com
Mon Sep 26 14:17:03 UTC 2022



> On 26. Sep 2022, at 16:41, Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:
> 
> On 26/09/2022 9:13 pm, Carl Brewer wrote:
> 
> To add to the list of Heisenbugs ....
> 
> It works.  I pulled it out of my rack, set it up on a table, and the BIOS found all 5 HDDs and was happy to use them to boot.
> 
> Erm?!
> 
> The only thing that happened, was ~10 mins of downtime and an HDMI instead of VGA monitor.
> 
> Some weird BIOS thing?  Some weird race condition with BIOS timing and HDDs spinning up?
> 
> It's working now, back in the rack and ok. Until next time?!
> 

I’d suggest to check for firmware update.

rgds,
toomas


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