[geeks] Solaris 10 x86 recovery?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 02/01/10 21:39, Nadine Miller wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Mike Meredith wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:24:17 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>> shell from the install CDs, but zfs/zpool list says no zfs
>>> datasets/pools available. The disks all seem to be present.  Am I
>>> missing something?  Is there a way I can recover my ZFS pool data
>>> from the single-user shell?  Should I be able to fsck and mount a
>>> partition on the boot disks just as though it was not mirrored?
>>
>> What does 'zfs import' say ? It's possible that you may have to import
>> a pool before using anything on it.
> 
> Check the zpool man page, you may have to have it look @ specific directories,
> or give it the -D flag to check for destroyed pools.
> 
> SOunds like you may have a controller issue, though...

No, that problem was just that the ZFS pools were newer than my Solaris
10 CD media.  When I hooked up a DVD drive and booted from the latest
Solaris DVD, the problem just vanished.  I found out that the grub boot
blocks were corrupted or gone, but I never found out why the system went
down in the first place to need the boot blocks.


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