Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process
On 11/02/2011, at 21:03, Mark Powell wrote:
>> Can you take a picture of where it hangs? (you will have to host it =
somewhere though, as the list will reject non text attachments).
>=20
> Here you go:
>=20
> http://galatea.salford.ac.uk/aix502/11022011448.jpg
>=20
> The spinning char can seemingly be in any position when it crashes. =
It took 5 attempts that time to get to the beastie menu.
OK.. unfortunately not really much help except confirming that it is in =
the BIOS/loader somewhere..
>> Is there an update for the BIOS? Does this happen on other hardware?
>=20
> I suspected BIOS, that's why I was going to get a new motherboard. =
I've always had problems getting gptzfsboot working on this hardware and =
there are no more BIOS updates now. That's why I have ufs root, as it =
only worked intermitantly.
> Then I wondered what the hell was going on in the loader that took =
>60s and seemingly touched every drive. I assumed it was FBSD that was =
tasting all the drives.
I believe the loader does look at the drives the BIOS presents to it, =
certainly at the very least it tries to find something to boot off :)
However, even if it is looking on every disk for partitions it should =
only take a second or so (unless one of the drives is broken I suppose).
I have seen BIOSen not boot reliably when external RAID cards are =
present.. Generally their quality is quite variable :(
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