From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 7 15:44:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4A8106564A for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:44:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from rc1.surewest.net (rc1.surewest.net [66.60.130.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2408FC08 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 15:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp3.surewest.net ([66.60.130.145]) by rc1.surewest.net ({dfaaa318-551d-4a0a-8038-7c31cf31c4f6}) via TCP (outbound) with ESMTP id 20120107154429818 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:44:29 +0000 X-RC-FROM: X-RC-RCPT: Received: from smtpauth.surewest.net (smtpauth.surewest.net [66.60.130.153]) by smtp3.surewest.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9493989629 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 07:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (unknown [69.62.230.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtpauth.surewest.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C3F49C12F for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 07:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (bigdaddy.mykitchentable.net [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBC001657DE for ; Sat, 7 Jan 2012 07:44:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=mykitchentable.net; s=default; t=1325951067; bh=cunyIMXr2/6vugEAZNFEeunPbr3yIskkjL7/tl5O1SA=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=KON8wf86LQcrUA5rlrHUxcK1L5Gvx6d+Su1Xrb6H87YH0NyXwLgzp+34Hc+Te2wln nsJwCg8c6Z8Bf/IGhxew1Zim9LfoSiW16w/XC25FkcIMf2DOTezNtx9ugt60RYxazP Y6LjHodzeitagT3icoVWaUvSNJRRV1umCNA7tTD8= Message-ID: <4F08684C.2070809@mykitchentable.net> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:44:12 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120107-0, 01/07/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Subject: ZFS Root Won't Mount - Unknown Filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:44:35 -0000 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 ada0 GPT (456G) 34 128 1 null (128K) 162 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