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From: cindy on 7 Nov 2008 20:36
On Nov 6, 4:16 am, Martin Paul <m...(a)par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> On one of the first machines I just installed with Solaris 10 10/08 via
> jumpstart, I got this warning message during the first reboot:
>
>    pmconfig: cannot convert "/dev/dsk/mirror" to prom device
>
> Here's what I have in the jumpstart profile:
>
>    pool rpool auto auto auto mirror c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0
>
> In /etc/power.conf I see:
>
>    statefile /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/dump
>
> No idea where pmconfig get's the (non-existant) /dev/dsk/mirror path
> from, and I don't see any ill-effects, but it still looks like a bug.
>
> mp.
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> SysAdmin | Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna
>       PCA | Analyze, download and install patches for Solaris
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HI Martin,

I did a pretty thorough search for this message, and didn't come up
with anything other than the /dev/dsk/mirror might be a artifact of
a SVM configuration. Did you upgrade or do a fresh install? If this
was an upgrade, did this system have an SVM or other volume
management product installed?

I'm traveling next week but will find out if this message is anything
to worry about and/or file a bug.

If this is the only problem you had with the Solaris 10 10/08 release,
then we'll count our blessings...

Cindy
From: Martin Paul on 11 Nov 2008 06:07
cindy wrote:
> On Nov 6, 4:16 am, Martin Paul <m...(a)par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
>> pmconfig: cannot convert "/dev/dsk/mirror" to prom device
>
> I did a pretty thorough search for this message, and didn't come up
> with anything other than the /dev/dsk/mirror might be a artifact of
> a SVM configuration. Did you upgrade or do a fresh install? If this
> was an upgrade, did this system have an SVM or other volume
> management product installed?

The machine had an SVM mirror, but it was a fresh install, so this
shouldn't matter (unless something was left in e.g. eeprom?). Maybe
pmconfig puts together a path with "/dev/dsk/" plus "mirror", which it
gets from the new ZFS root code, instead of a device like cxtxdxsx?

> If this is the only problem you had with the Solaris 10 10/08 release,
> then we'll count our blessings...

Surprisingly, it *is* the only real "problem" I've seen with 10/08 so
far. I was quite happy to see that e.g. a fresh install via jumpstart to
an X4500, using the new root ZFS (mirror) option worked without a hitch.

No need to waste a lot of your valuable time on that issue :)

mp.
--
SysAdmin | Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna
PCA | Analyze, download and install patches for Solaris
| http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
From: cindy on 12 Nov 2008 17:12
On Nov 11, 4:07 am, Martin Paul <m...(a)par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> cindy wrote:
> > On Nov 6, 4:16 am, Martin Paul <m...(a)par.univie.ac.at> wrote:
> >> pmconfig: cannot convert "/dev/dsk/mirror" to prom device
>
> > I did a pretty thorough search for this message, and didn't come up
> > with anything other than the /dev/dsk/mirror might be a artifact of
> > a SVM configuration. Did you upgrade or do a fresh install? If this
> > was an upgrade, did this system have an SVM or other volume
> > management product installed?
>
> The machine had an SVM mirror, but it was a fresh install, so this
> shouldn't matter (unless something was left in e.g. eeprom?). Maybe
> pmconfig puts together a path with "/dev/dsk/" plus "mirror", which it
> gets from the new ZFS root code, instead of a device like cxtxdxsx?
>
> > If this is the only problem you had with the Solaris 10 10/08 release,
> > then we'll count our blessings...
>
> Surprisingly, it *is* the only real "problem" I've seen with 10/08 so
> far. I was quite happy to see that e.g. a fresh install via jumpstart to
> an X4500, using the new root ZFS (mirror) option worked without a hitch.
>
> No need to waste a lot of your valuable time on that issue :)
>
> mp.
> --
> SysAdmin | Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna
> PCA | Analyze, download and install patches for Solaris
> |http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/

HI Martin,

Yes, it could be that the /dev/dsk + mirror is some odd concatenation
from
pmconfig.

I don't think the PROM knows anything about /dev/dsk entries so I'm
still
unclear where it originates. I don't believe ZFS has any such entry.

I have a mirrored ZFS root pool on one system and haven't seen this
message.

If it continues on every reboot, please let me know.

Cindy
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