From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 17 18:15:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60DC1065670 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:15:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mattjreimer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f204.google.com (mail-yw0-f204.google.com [209.85.211.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6B68FC15 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh42 with SMTP id 42so122360ywh.7 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:15:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=ZxR8MPsMjogHXiBcABnEsATiRdHQKN+sURDwNMIf+L8=; b=Iddf7NADm4JLJb0Syb8RuXmcTxVCd0w6mq05Y+l06u6RabTjS5pByCkwmXunpqCqxJ S8Hu0w8gC3+OwaQD6Q7qoqzV8wi4QW+dkaqS0UHyotgjCfTD7+gIFg/zuLxYCgYS+v2B fMRqqBQDARRkdC07N5SGVOPMjU/yw9g0Lwj7w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=oLs0KloeTOC0SpNlBpMEUa9hAuKWtId7xROtcEKTMee3kZjysWHJFuF78bJ0iFjugH YBffuRARxczzGS6AYl9Ne4Exi53c60EJ1Fv9odIFHdARZDkUuKHCf+/vka/Tr1KLxkYv Tg507hl4NvfyPskUzrGMAs2y0VXqwELY++YIM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.93.13 with SMTP id q13mr11790445ybb.123.1266430507333; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:15:07 -0800 (PST) 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> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:15:07 -0800 Message-ID: From: Matt Reimer To: Chris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Doug Poland , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeing the dreaded "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" on 9.0-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:15:08 -0000 On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Chris 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