From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 17:46:27 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 A23C61065675 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:46:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627FF8FC25 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:46:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ant2005.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.250] helo=[10.8.1.9]) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Om95m-000FUZ-H3; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:39:54 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Heinrich Rebehn In-Reply-To: <20100819172402.a171387c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:46:25 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <5B106B44-1353-426D-BBD8-821C1F88C5F8@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20100819172402.a171387c.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: Heinrich Rebehn , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 17:46:27 -0000 On 19.08.2010, at 17:24, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:33:11 +0200 > Heinrich Rebehn wrote: >=20 >> Hi all, >>=20 >> i am getting the error message in $subject when trying to boot from = zfs. >> I followed the instructions found in: >>=20 >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror >>=20 >> 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 >=20 > You have tried verbose boot? > If not, try it and see if you get more information. > --=20 > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen Yes, i have tried. I did get a flurry of information, but nothing = related to the kernel not being able to mount the root fs. In the meanwhile, i have redone the installation and for some reason it = is working now. Probably the pool cache was missing.. :-) Now i have another problem: The root fs on on a 4-disk zfs mirror. I am testing under VMware fusion = using virtual scsi disks. In order to test redundancy, i removed the = first disk and booting failed. The loader reports: error 1 lba 32 error 1 lba 1 error 1 lba 32 error 1 lba 1 error 1 lba 32 error 1 lba 1 error 1 lba 32 error 1 lba 1 No ZFS pools located, can't boot If i remove any other of the 3 disks instead, booting works fine. Is the = pool's configuration only stored on the first disk? Do i have to = replicate it to the other disks by hand? -Heinrich