Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 20:57:10 +0200 From: Pawel Tyll <ptyll@nitronet.pl> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Subject: Re: Root mount from ZFS takes forever...literally. Message-ID: <1977671390.20100517205710@nitronet.pl> In-Reply-To: <20100517165352.GA12092@icarus.home.lan> References: <598841171.20100515193024@nitronet.pl> <4BF164DD.4060502@icyb.net.ua> <1554873904.20100517184702@nitronet.pl> <20100517165352.GA12092@icarus.home.lan>
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> Are you *absolutely sure* the problem has to do with ZFS? I see you > mention PXE booting...... PXE boot was used as an emergency boot method to fix the problem. > This sounds much like an environment where serial console is set up > incorrectly; kernel messages will be seen up to the final "Mounting > root..." message, but everything past that goes to VGA console (or > serial console, depends on the configuration mishap). I thought so too at first, but then this doesn't explain lack of any disk activity after the message and network unavailability.
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