From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 17 22:16:24 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 4FE75106568F for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from behrnetworks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com (mail-fx0-f219.google.com [209.85.220.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00118FC35 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so650341fxm.3 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:16:22 -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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=e3S0TdiVo9/KpZWooClSLLeP85gCtt39xdxeRzPldz4=; b=I/C0W08HSg1SIpWZzAqBvYeGl2QXe9wDWITTFpo1G2Ih9zTiMRVLrTGQV5U7wfW95r nOycZo+l3GdIXoFieSZx9ZyAU0IEQ5rGfAXfcqqeK/7lxUbYr94NEya3Dl6TBMCtbBas 7eZ9AZsRL2CtH4iIajCl4gafO9Owxk1/IDLJk= 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:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZIN2t2V9B7aagM8eq09SIis9gnE5mS6787Mrv3fnTs7FcffuZlWR+EPkxpxTX67u/Z nhidCXFylbRqBETujUsh/c1KEnZiC7Iuu8mU+IG5PkuA3RuFxzRV09K3TD4Fv3neuzh6 1Bs29I07h7wxwxe6P9uXe18MCBvdwmYO4UrN8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.32.198 with SMTP id e6mr2130261bkd.169.1266444982437; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:16:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <790a9fff1002171303u4b40a90cr626ef856efee473b@mail.gmail.com> References: <64aa03031002161803h667734cal4d668b9eb9c0a1a8@mail.gmail.com> <790a9fff1002161842g17de8ecfvf2cfa8c77f03c32@mail.gmail.com> <64aa03031002161849s7b66b9e3l727aafd2afd3d596@mail.gmail.com> <201002171840.41088.ken@mthelicon.com> <790a9fff1002171303u4b40a90cr626ef856efee473b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:16:22 -0500 Message-ID: <64aa03031002171416s128ff196y92a5be5a6abadeb@mail.gmail.com> From: Chris To: Scot Hetzel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Pegasus Mc Cleaft , 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 22:16:24 -0000 How's this for bizarre? If I hit F12 to bring up the boot menu and select my hard drive, it boots just fine! If I don't do that, with 8.0-STABLE installed, I get the same lba error 1 errors as well as the "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" error. Time to call in an exorcist... On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft w= rote: >> Hello Chris, Scott & Current >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I use gptzfsboot on my AMD64 (current) machine all the ti= me and also on >> my laptop. I am not sure if this will cause the problem you are seeing b= ut I >> know I ran into a lot of trouble depending on what type of pool I was >> creating. >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I believe this is correct, and if I am not than I apologi= se in advance, >> but.... >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0If you are trying to boot off a linear type pool (A singl= e disk or a >> mirror) your bootable filing system has to be a zfs filing system beneat= h the >> root pool (IE: zroot/boot). If you are trying to boot off a zraid pool, = your >> bootable filing system must be the root filing system of the pool (IE: z= root) >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0You must also include the appropriate declaration in the >> /boot/loader.conf file: >> >> (for a zraid pool) >> zfs_load=3D"YES" >> vfs.root.mountfrom=3D"zfs:zpool" >> >> (for a linear type) >> zfs_load=3D"YES" >> vfs.root.mountfrom=3D"zfs:zpool/root" >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0If I try any other method, zboot explodes in a myriad of = different ways. >> > > Not sure why your zboot explodes, but I use a single disk and only use > the following in /boot/loader.conf: > > zfs_load=3D"YES" > vfs.root.mountfrom=3D"zfs:zpool" > > it should work with either zfs:zpool or zfs:zpool/root. > > Scot >