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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 2014 01:28:21 -0600
From:      Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To:        Zenny <garbytrash@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Devin Teske <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>
Subject:   Re: Recovery of zpools went corrupt!?
Message-ID:  <CACdU%2Bf98emYbZhLtWjDWDnW4qFVarY52wO2bMUYwJ5a4GR6xEg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Zenny <garbytrash@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reposting the mail below as I had an oversight not to include subject
> line. Apology in advance!
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> Last time, Devin had been very kind to suggest me when the system
>> borked while trying to upgrade from v10B3 to vRC1.
>>
>> Following FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE, I installed to a new machine with
>> encrypted root in zfs mirror, and since there was something wrong (a
>> double quote by mistake) inserted in the /boot/device.hints, the
>> kernel refused to boot and landed to the mountroot prompt.
>>
>> Therefore, in order to make changes what I did was:
>>
>> 1. Boot into LiveCD mode
>> 2.     mkdir /tmp/bootpool
>>         zpool import -f bootpool
>>         zfs set mountpoint=/tmp/bootpool bootpool
>>         zfs mount -a
>>         cp /tmp/bootpool/boot/encryption.key /tmp/
>>         zfs umount -a
>>         zfs set mountpoint=/bootpool bootpool
>>         zpool export bootpool
>>         geli attach -k /tmp/encryption.key /dev/ada0p4
>>         geli attach -k /tmp/encryption.key /dev/ada1p4
>>         zpool import -R /mnt zroot
>>         zpool import -R /mnt/bootpool bootpool
>> 3. Removed the double quote (") from /bootpool/boot/device.hints and
>> saved the file.
>>
>> 4. Rebooted the file and now it says that there is no boot/zfsbootloader.
>>
Does the file /boot/zfsloader exist in /boot or /bootpool/boot?


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