Upgrading your ZFS root pool's version
Posted by Ceri Davies Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:23:00 GMT
We, apparently randomly, had a Solaris 10 host reboot and fail to come back up a couple of weeks ago.
On investigation, GRUB was failing to load the menu.lst file from the root pool and the Solaris GRUB findroot extension was failing to find any boot signatures, despite the pool on the disk being consistent and in good health.
As we couldn’t find any symptoms other than “it doesn’t work”, we rebuilt the machine and moved on with our lives. Until today, when it happened again…
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