[indiana-discuss] "zio_read_data failed" in GRUB while trying to boot from compact flash (CF)

[Dave Miner]

James Lee wrote:
> I am trying to get OpenSolaris 2009.06 to run from my 32 GB Kingston
> compact flash drive attached to a standard Sil 0680 IDE controller.  The
> installer detects the card and install successfully.  Upon reboot, GRUB
> drops to a "grub>" prompt.  Any attempts to read menu.lst fail with:
> 
> grub> root (hd0,0,a)
> Filesystem type is zfs ...
> grub> find /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst
> zio_read_data failed
> Error 15: File not found
> 
> 
> However, I have no problem importing/mounting rpool from the livecd and
> it scrubs fine:
> 
...

> 
> Any idea why this would fail in GRUB but work when booted from a livecd?

You didn't by chance turn on gzip-compression for the file systems on 
this, did you?

Dave