Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:46:35 -0700 From: Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> Subject: Re: can not boot from RAIDZ with 8-STABLE Message-ID: <CAFqOu6gVAjhbGd-92kiLGdztVTAbAxe1MwEjVECthnKVV=QEMg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E4C1945.5030504@quip.cz> References: <4E4BC38D.1050808@quip.cz> <4E4BCCC3.60601@digsys.bg> <CAFqOu6hQzzwrTpuyddqrODr8WP4Ke0pi7MoYhYL9ivfsNHxNhA@mail.gmail.com> <4E4C1945.5030504@quip.cz>
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote: > Thank you guys, you are right. The BIOS provides only 1 disk to the loader! > I checked it from loader prompt by lsdev (booted from USB external HDD). > > So I will try to make a small zpool mirror for root and boot (if ZFS mirror > can be made of 4 providers instead of two) and the rest will be in RAIDZ. > > If that fails, I will go my old way with internal USB flash disk with UFS > for booting and RAIDZ of 4 disks for storage as I did it few years ago with > 7.0 or 7.1. You seem to be booting from disks attached to some sort of add-on card. Sometimes those have per-disk 'bootable' option in their own extension ROM. You may investigate yours. Perhaps all you need to do is just tweak controller settings. --Artem
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