Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:14:26 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 209940] FreeBSD installer for ZFS destroys RAID and fails (and hangs) Message-ID: <bug-209940-6@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D209940 Bug ID: 209940 Summary: FreeBSD installer for ZFS destroys RAID and fails (and hangs) Product: Base System Version: 11.0-CURRENT Hardware: amd64 OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: standards Assignee: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Reporter: elofu17@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Created attachment 170919 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=3D170919&action= =3Dedit GEOM error in the FreeBSD installer during ZFS install In the FreeBSD 10.1 installer, I can't install FreeBSD using ZFS on a BIOS Software RAID1 volume. When the installer tries to handle the raid/r0 device (gpart, etc), it dest= roys the RAID and then shows an error message, and the installer fail. Therefore I downloaded the latest FreeBSD-11.0-ALPHA1-amd64-20160528-r300895-disc1.iso to see if the latest version of FreeBSD behave better. Unfortunetly it doesn't. How to reproduce: Boot a machine (in my case a Supermicro) with two harddrives. Enter BIOS setup and configure the SATA controller as a RAID controller. Reboot and press ctrl-i to enter the "Intel Software RAID" setup. Create a RAID1 volume containing the two HDDs. Boot the FreeBSD 11.0 installer, select keyboard, enter a hostname and clear all distribution packages. Now choose to install using ZFS. Under 'Pool Type/Disks:', select "stripe" and then select the RAID1 volume "raid/r0", like this: [ ] ada0 [ ] ada1 [x] raid/r0 The ZFS-installer now says "stripe: 1 disks" which is correct, so proceed w= ith the installation. Are you sure? Yes Now the same thing happens as in 10.1: The Intel software RAID1 you just created is destroyed. On FreeBSD 11.0, nothing more happen. The installer has stopped. No error messages, no nothing. (see attachment #1: geom.jpg and #2: the debug-screen (alt-F3) of the installer) (For your information: On FreeBSD 10.1 the same thing happens (the raid is destroyed), but at least an error is generated, so one can exit the install= er. On FreeBSD 11.0 the installer just hangs.) What I expected/wanted: I wanted FreeBSD 11.0 to be installed onto my soft RAID1 volume as an ordin= ary striped ZFS. ( I want to use a standard RAID1 of two full disks. I do not want to use ZFS mirror since this is not full disk duplication, and the recovery of a broken ZFS-mirror-disk is a much bigger hassle (manually duplicate partition structures, manually save a bootloader, manually resilv= er the zfs-mirror) than recovering an ordinary RAID1 disk. I want ZFS, so using UFS instead is not a workaround. ) Can this problem in the ZFS-installer please be fixed before the official FreeBSD 11.0 is released? --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.=
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