[OmniOS-discuss] Only grub after boot

[Josh Barton]

Interesting thought, I'll bet that’s what it was but I would love to hear if anyone has a definitive answer. Thank you everyone for your help!

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Raatikainen [mailto:timo.raatikainen at sourapple.fi] 
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 2:03 AM
To: Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org>
Cc: Josh Barton <Josh.Barton at usurf.usu.edu>; Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com>; omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com
Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Only grub after boot

Notice that the drive in question (ST2000NX0243) is a 4k native drive. I’ve never tried booting from such drive, could someone confirm if grub can handle it? I suspect that it might not.

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Timo Raatikainen



> On 9.6.2016, at 5.38, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Josh Barton
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 3:17 PM
>> 
>> The hba is reporting the correct sizes for all drives, I didn't ever 
>> try
> directly
>> plugging in to the motherboard sata controller because I couldn't 
>> find a molex to sata power adapter.
> 
> You could also see if anybody has a sff8087 breakout cable laying 
> around so you could hook up the SATA port to the hotswap backplane :).
> 
> Did you try installing a linux distribution to see if you could get 
> its grub to boot off of the 2TB drive via the SAS HBA? If that works, 
> it would rule out the hard drive itself as being faulty.
> 
> 
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