From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 28 17:27:27 2009 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 61DD11065673 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from serenity@exscape.org) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5198FC29 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 17:27:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from serenity@exscape.org) Received: from c83-253-252-234.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.252.234]:33670 helo=mx.exscape.org) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9jNk-0006JF-5F for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:27:10 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (macbookpro [192.168.1.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.exscape.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C54238A5D for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 19:27:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: From: Thomas Backman To: FreeBSD Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:27:07 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.252.234 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1M9jNk-0006JF-5F. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1M9jNk-0006JF-5F 402ce11a8a89d860d00de85ffbe58b1c Subject: Not having much luck with RAID-Z boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 28 May 2009 17:27:27 -0000 I'm trying out the new RAID-Z boot support, but I'm not having much luck. After finally getting VMware to get the boot order right (and not move on to PXE boot etc.) all I get is errors. See the original thread: http://www.nabble.com/Booting-from-ZFS-raidz-td21058594.html I followed in the footsteps on the first poster (maybe not such a great idea since it failed for him), even to the point of using three disks in VMware Fusion, although that was a coincidence. Anyway, I have a healthy "rpool" made out of three GPT partitioned disks, as in the post. The only thing I changed was $1 to the disk names (da2, da3, da4) and the size parameter for the freebsd-zfs partition. I then populated the pool with everything from my current r192914 install, and made sure that zpool.cache was up to date in /rpool/boot/ zfs (by copying the current copy there, and making sure it contained "rpool"). All I get is "error 4 lba xxxxxxxxxxx", 30+ times, followed by the loader starting to load the kernel, and failing with 10-15 lines of "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable". It can't load the kernel, manually or not. It does read loader.conf successfully though (since vfs.root.mountfrom and vm.kmem_max etc. are set correctly). System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (DTRACE) #4 r192914: Thu May 28 08:56:46 CEST 2009 Built with LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=YES in /etc/make.conf, no patches applied (since the raidz boot patch was merged to current a few days ago). Any advice? Regards, Thomas