From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 04:59:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36D767BB; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:59:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-x232.google.com (mail-oa0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c02::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E352A105A; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id i7so3865554oag.37 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:59:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=6joheUzLmDztShrlDp99BVKaVco7pUCEa1vRoluBNG4=; b=XocyrdkT5moMN8NPj3l3JAvqgc3/abZ2nJV2oYrHknVu2w+DeQxt3lq4qhvSh30uJI flyPA7R2KcgsOlDdXEJ9BtEqKwf43Y4l1gGA/vXbL1lhA5YZBDElZD8rvLPE/pHmKuF5 gwT9cP7ulV4gdCxQYfOf6t3/QAjlSnFzi0F4SNqAw7MJ7rKgNNGHuKkw06ywRIZKJ3HH oQcBYaQ92cGgJ75hOBKzfLczacatX674qy/oC6oMvyuStoE95bcrppirM60H3+48PmIu lP6ej8v1zklim0bW3bl3Ec6TcNAzY3GnBREhFg7Vvq9MptmiLIS6eWKLJFjtQ9tfV6UE QcfA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.93.168 with SMTP id cv8mr12238362oeb.21.1397105965580; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:59:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.12.34 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Apr 2014 21:59:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7F54B772-12D4-426C-A1D6-AA559128228B@ultra-secure.de> References: <201303191220.34088.jhb@freebsd.org> <515DA760.8000101@FreeBSD.org> <201304041316.12617.jhb@freebsd.org> <515DC008.9060108@FreeBSD.org> <5345C02D.2070603@FreeBSD.org> <5345C38B.3010500@FreeBSD.org> <7F54B772-12D4-426C-A1D6-AA559128228B@ultra-secure.de> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:59:25 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: gptzfsboot problem on HP P410i Smart Array From: Andreas Nilsson To: Rainer Duffner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: Current FreeBSD , Matthew Seaman X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:59:27 -0000 On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 10.04.2014 um 00:02 schrieb Matthew Seaman : > > > On 09/04/2014 22:52, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> And no, as the server is in a remote datacenter, an USB-stick is not an > option. > >> > >> It's slow enough booting via a virtual USB-image over iLO... > > > > Uh... it only has to read the kernel+modules from the USB stick one time > > while booting. Otherwise, there really shouldn't be any IO inside /boot > > unless you login and do stuff in that directory manually. Your root > > filesystem would be on the normal hard drives. > > > > Anyhow the question is moot, since you don't have the same problem I did. > > > >> No, it's actually just a single RAID6-0 disk created by the P410i... > > > > If you're going to use the RAID controller to generate a virtual drive, > > do you really need to use ZFS on top of that? Couldn't you partition > > your virtual drive and put / onto a small UFS partition and then make a > > zpool on the rest? > > > I don't want to sacrifice two disks for a RAID1 boot-disk. > Normally, I would actually do that, but in this case, the server is a > MySQL-slave to a master that has 12 disks - and should the master die, > this system has to take over its work. > > You never specified exactly how it fails. But I'll take a guess: *Attempting Boot From Hard Drive (C:)* *gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 32* *gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 1* *g**ptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot* A workaround is http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-August/026624.html Best regards Andreas