From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 17 19:57:16 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 B0BFE1065676 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:57:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7C68FC13 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:57:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=iB-c6w9ADx4A:10 a=18KtUlCWiSkz+XDQa99sPQ==:17 a=P4M-iA2j_aR53voZjoAA:9 a=sMAUbi4un64Cq79F_qEA:7 a=GQ7ug7MhnAKrV3QAduIzdkjA8xAA:4 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 75.87.219.217 Received: from [75.87.219.217] ([75.87.219.217:50381] helo=haran.polands.org) by hrndva-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id FC/FB-20968-A1A4C7B4; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:57:15 +0000 Received: from email.polands.org (ararat.polands.org [172.16.1.20]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1HJvEWc085103; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:57:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 192.206.119.3 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:57:14 -0600 Message-ID: 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 13:57:14 -0600 From: "Doug Poland" To: "Chris" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.20-RC2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: 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 19:57:16 -0000 On Wed, February 17, 2010 09:46, 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? > Again, another curiousity from my experiences, try booting in verbose mode (#5 in boot screen). If you can't get there, try booting with your installation media, mount the pool and put "-v" in pool/boot.config. It's kind of a long shot... -- Regards, Doug