Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:44:12 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ZFS Root Won't Mount - Unknown Filesystem Message-ID: <4F08684C.2070809@mykitchentable.net>
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I'm attempting a new install of 9.0-RC3 amd64. My system has 4 500 GB drives. Using this tutorial as a guide: http://www.aisecure.net/2011/11/28/root-zfs-freebsd9/ I created a boot and a freebsd-zfs partition on each drive. Then I created a raid1z pool using all 4 drives. I followed the rest of the tutorial exactly and ensured that I copied the zpool.cache to boot/zfs. When I try to boot my new system, it all goes fine up until it's time to mount zfs:zroot. It fails with an "error 2" "unknown filesystem" error. I don't know if this means anything but at the mountfrom prompt, the system will not accept any keyboard input. Same keyboard works fine when booted into LiveCD. Unfortunately because I can't figure out how to get a LiveCD type environment with sshd running, I can't copy and paste exact error messages or command outputs. I've searched and the two things that seem to be important are that there's a zpool.cache file and that the zfs partitions are correct. A 'gpart show -l' shows my partitions something close to this: 34 <big number> ada0 GPT (456G) 34 128 1 null (128K) 162 <big number> 2 disk0 (456G) What have I done wrong and what do I need to do to get my zfs:zroot pool mounted as root? Thanks, Drew -- Like card tricks? Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse to learn card magic secrets for free! http://alchemistswarehouse.com
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