From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 16:24:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25F71065673 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:24:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from eterpe-smout.broadpark.no (eterpe-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE018FC13 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:24:06 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from ignis-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.11]) by eterpe-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0L7E00GE9O43FW50@eterpe-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:24:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([80.203.92.226]) by ignis-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0L7E00NB0O422LA1@ignis-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:24:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:24:02 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20100819172402.a171387c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-reply-to: <5B106B44-1353-426D-BBD8-821C1F88C5F8@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <5B106B44-1353-426D-BBD8-821C1F88C5F8@ant.uni-bremen.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: Re: ROOT MOUNT ERROR when booting from zfs 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: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:24:06 -0000 On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:33:11 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Hi all, > > i am getting the error message in $subject when trying to boot from zfs. > I followed the instructions found in: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror > > Before posting all config details and asking what i might have done wrong: Is there any possibility to get a more detailed error message than just ROOT MOUNT ERROR? e.g. zpool not found | zpool could not be imported | illegal mount options | etc You have tried verbose boot? If not, try it and see if you get more information. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen