Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:15:07 -0800 From: Matt Reimer <mattjreimer@gmail.com> To: Chris <behrnetworks@gmail.com> Cc: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeing the dreaded "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" on 9.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <f383264b1002171015u7de65e01hc11b99f0ad3f3997@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64aa03031002170746p49716f76gd87987422a190a02@mail.gmail.com> References: <64aa03031002161803h667734cal4d668b9eb9c0a1a8@mail.gmail.com> <4B7B4F73.60807@delphij.net> <64aa03031002161821n266a0ef1jd8d8ec4cac1c9635@mail.gmail.com> <790a9fff1002161842m5d49515dh45bb942e30285b3b@mail.gmail.com> <790a9fff1002161842g17de8ecfvf2cfa8c77f03c32@mail.gmail.com> <64aa03031002161849s7b66b9e3l727aafd2afd3d596@mail.gmail.com> <64aa03031002161851o621f3bc8r31ba438e3fb906c0@mail.gmail.com> <4B7B644F.5050404@polands.org> <64aa03031002170528l7acf05bev4d75685187c1eb46@mail.gmail.com> <64aa03031002170746p49716f76gd87987422a190a02@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Chris <behrnetworks@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, went back to my 8.0-RELEASE memstick image and after playing with > the GPT settings a little and dd'ing all zeros to the disk first, I > get a little farther this time. I'm seeing the following: > > ----------------------------- > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > BIOS 631kB/1832448kB available memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0 > (root@, Wed Feb 17 10:27:40 UTC 2010) > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8924d8 > ----------------------------- > > And that's as far as it gets. Per the handbook, that appears to be > stuck somewhere between boot2 and /boot/loader. To me, it looks like > it's having a problem loading the kernel. As far as my suspicion of > the BIOS not correctly reporting the drives, it looks to me like the > bootloader is seeing them so maybe that can be ruled out. I'm glad to > see it get farther this time but this is still weird. > > Any ideas on this one? > IIRC the 8.0-RELEASE gptzfsboot/loader lacked some bugfixes. Try using gptzfsboot and zfsloader from -STABLE. Matt
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