From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 02:07:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9990F106566C for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 02:07:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgollucci@p6m7g8.com) Received: from EXHUB015-4.exch015.msoutlookonline.net (exhub015-4.exch015.msoutlookonline.net [207.5.72.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875BC8FC16 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 02:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from philip.hq.rws (174.79.184.239) by smtpx15.msoutlookonline.net (207.5.72.103) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:56:59 -0800 Message-ID: <4B8C7069.3040104@p6m7g8.com> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:56:57 +0000 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" Organization: P6M7G8 Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100220 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: gptzfsboot dell r510 fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:07:01 -0000 Hi All, Dell r510 24GB RAM 8 disks in the following order 0-1 - 25gb ssd sas 2-7 - 136gb sas http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0@203057 which does not include http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=199714 so following http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2 [/etc/src.conf: ZFS_LOADER_SUPPORT=true] which I've gotten to work on 500+ dell machines on the above fbsd version. [860,1435sc,1950,2950,2970,r710] So I've setup the zpools via the livefs as zroot (mirror) /dev/gpt/disk0 -> mfid2[p3] /dev/gpt/disk1 -> mfid3[p3] zmysql (raidz1) /dev/mfid[4567] cache /dev/mfid[01] I've selected the 3rd device in the perc h700 bios [mfid2] to be the 'bios boot device' which amazingly to me actually worked. During the boot I get to the standard ROOT MOUNT ERROR: .... set vfs.root.mountfrom.options=rw Loader variables: vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:zroot vfs.root.mountfrom.options Manual root filesystem specification: ..... Is this setup even possible, or will I need to relocate the order of the disks ? For my next attempt, I'm going to try to move the ssds to slots 6,7 so the boot devices are '0,1' which I know should work. Failing that, I'll do hardware raid-1 on 0-1 and just a ZFS fs on them on top. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1024D/DB9B8C1C B90B FBC3 A3A1 C71A 8E70 3F8C 75B8 8FFB DB9B 8C1C Philip M. Gollucci (pgollucci@p6m7g8.com) c: 703.336.9354 VP Apache Infrastructure; Member, Apache Software Foundation Committer, FreeBSD Foundation Consultant, P6M7G8 Inc. Sr. System Admin, Ridecharge Inc. Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.