From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 17 02:08:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDE41065670 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [IPv6:2001:470:a803::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C0F8FC0C for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:08:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECD8A5806E; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:07:59 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([211.166.10.233]) by mail.geekcn.org (mail.geekcn.org [211.166.10.233]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id pOeaS9TWLLjt; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:07:53 +0800 (CST) Received: from delta.delphij.net (drawbridge.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.65]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 73036A57F07; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:07:52 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent: mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to: x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=rvOtH9lQEiLoOtbaKjIu7Zv0kB8Tp/A7YlRsnCuFrYeX/2e1J7547Tmdr5U7Vv7/x 2Ytf91/XeG424h82PmEEA== Message-ID: <4B7B4F73.60807@delphij.net> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:07:47 -0800 From: Xin LI Organization: The Geek China Organization User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100207 Thunderbird/3.0.1 ThunderBrowse/3.2.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <64aa03031002161803h667734cal4d668b9eb9c0a1a8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64aa03031002161803h667734cal4d668b9eb9c0a1a8@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 OpenPGP: id=3FCA37C1; url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeing the dreaded "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" on 9.0-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d@delphij.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:08:01 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010/02/16 18:03, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install CURRENT a single drive ZFS on root setup using > the guide located here: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > > This is on an amd64-based Acer 5516 laptop. I'm able to complete the > installation, however, when I boot, the system stops at the boot > loader with several "error 1 lba xxx" (where xxx is some large number) > errors and the "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" error. > When I issue the "status" command at the boot loader, I see only the > GPT partition and the ZFS pool. Should I also see any physical > devices? I strongly suspect that the BIOS on this laptop is up to some > sort of chicanery but it's hard to say so definitively since I can > install and boot to a regular UFS-based FreeBSD installation. I've > confirmed this on 8.0-RELEASE and 9.0-CURRENT. I've also made sure to > delete any UFS and GPT partitions as well as any ZFS pools before > installing to be sure that I'm installing on a clean disk. Also, I've > tried building the bootloader (even though the guide said it's > depreciated as of 8.0-STABLE and 9.0-CURRENT) as well as installing > the boot blocks, both to no avail. > > Any ideas and/or suggestions would greatly be appreciated! Just a wild guess... Did you copied the /boot/zfs folder to the target file system? Cheers, - -- Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLe09zAAoJEATO+BI/yjfBZhsH/jX6l3DedCM8EYmsGftpunqL 4FtxmgDMEXd7jvmNmFdHVVf3vrctGB4ldcr8hriNkMvvEy3fuykEfJkBmY3sIhQ0 A4iXWUH6QIiiaakjOocGhk58r3MisUS4u0qhpmSdyEuH6CHF3SBLJubUBmpEQ89W oilYch+qlkwNZqoGKP0gxMnY9DEttt9hlUo2HwLIBE1ApX8bNyNp18iHd2v61eSD 9elluEokjHqQqD6II7z+rSefODs9AEna+wx7d/BZLEVZMcfDarYPiajS0b0kBFXz 1LRlM8Uxz5YWQkx2irhtcC41aUwf55CnY2MbZ+nobTV+pgXrMkIUvphiplPKMvU= =1gQ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----