Hi Robert,
you are hitting following ZFS bug:
4858 OpenSolaris fails to boot if previous zfs turds are present on disk
now tracked in Bugster:
6770808 OpenSolaris fails to boot if previous zfs turds are present on disk
Thanks,
Jan
Robert Milkowski wrote:> Hello indiana-discuss,
>
> Recently I re-installed a box with OS 101a - as installer in
> Indiana still doesn''t allow to set-up a mirrored root pool I
> installed it only on one disk. However there was an older version
> of Indiana there already installed and mirror was set-up manually.
>
> What happened after install/reboot is that system used miniroot
> from new system but mounted root-fs from old system, probably using
> 2nd disk from the old pool. When I booted from live-cd again and
> did zpool import I cold see two rpools, different IDs of course,
> where the old rpool (mirrored one) has marked the first drive as
> with corruped data (CKSUMs).
>
> I haven''t investigated it in detail but looks like
grub/miniroot
> got confused. Perhaps installer should check if it can detect any
> other rpool in a system before creating its own and do something
> about it?
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