zfs discuss - Jan 2006 - Disk/Boot problems when upgrading BIOS

I don''t know if it''s caused by ZFS or drivers/disks, but the
symptoms are as follows.

M-bord ASUS KN8-E Deluxe with Athlon 64.
Running snv_30. When upgrading BIOS to current, the machine can''t boot
anymore and crashes just after GRUB booting the Solaris kernel. BIOS contains
SATA upgrades and I''ve got a newer SATA II disk installed.

When downgrading to BIOS from late 2004 everything works fine except that I
can''t label the new SATA disk, not even ZFS automatic EFI labeling
works.

Any clues?

/Per
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So b30 is supposed to contain this bug, see:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4728&tstart=45

which blindly missed the real thread:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4451&tstart=60

First thing to try is to set the drive type to ''None".

I need to try that with my system which is running b32. Hmm, actually my system
will boot okay even with the drive type set correctly. It is just when it gets
into X it hangs. :->
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<p>So I tried setting my drives detection to ''None'' and
while my system will boot, it hangs about 5-10s after it accepts logins. See
<a
href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tdh#wont_will_boot_with_sata">Wont
will boot with SATA drives but doesn''t like it at all</a> in my
blog.</p>

<p>This is an opteron system with b32.</p>

<p>The system will boot fine with the drives disconnected.</p>

<p>I can get into single user mode.</p>

<p>What info can I gather to help someone isolate this issue?</p>
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