[OmniOS-discuss] Only grub after boot

[Timo Raatikainen]

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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