Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:05:34 +0200 From: Peter Blok <pblok@bsd4all.org> To: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOLVED: ZFS Solaris: Cannot find the pool label Message-ID: <96F2B721-5096-41FB-9763-510F8F1F4C8D@bsd4all.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2h%2Bzyik44dqOSjzqr9a0fYZEK8pp3eXGyL7nJu_ciqigg@mail.gmail.com> References: <6A5954CF-E4B4-4CFD-BCB3-652B89F2475A@bsd4all.org> <CAOtMX2h%2Bzyik44dqOSjzqr9a0fYZEK8pp3eXGyL7nJu_ciqigg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Alan, Your suggestion might be related. On all 6 drives I have boot partitions and UEFI partitions. I assumed the order in which the drives were presented was the same as with the on-board controller, but that was not the case. It used the loader.efi from a different disk in the new system. There was only one UEFI partition I apparantly did not update and that happened to be the one that was picked in the new system. I took the UEFI partition from the freshly installed external disk and copied it on all and now the system boots. Thanks a lot, Peter > On 10 Jul 2023, at 15:17, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 1:18 AM Peter Blok <pblok@bsd4all.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a small sized NAS with an on-board LSI SAS2308 controller in IR mode, but with drives presented directly. Due to space constraints I’m booting of those drives, which host a RAID-Z pool. A known problem with the on-board controller is that it is getting to hot and over time it dies slowly with lots of controller resets. This happened before, but I had a spare MB. >> >> Over the weekend this started to happen with my last spare MB. I still had a PCIe version of SAS2308 and plugged that with the drives into a newer machine, because it doesn’t fit in the existing case. >> >> The boot loader is started but it stops with Solaris: Cannot find the boot label for zroot >> >> When I add an extra drive on a SATA port and install FreeBSD ( same version 13-stable of a couple of days ago ) I can import the pool ok and scrub it. No errors found, but booting stil fails the same way even when I physically disconnect the extra drive. >> >> There are differences: >> >> - PCIe controller runs in IT mode. Reported drive size in blocks is identical. Firmware is 17.0. based when the on-board had 20.0 (latest) and ran IR in pass-thru. >> - hardware is different >> >> Before I start upgrading firmware, I would like to investigate a bit more. (This is my last controller and I don’t want to brick it with newer firmware) >> >> Which label is ZFS complaining about and where is it located? >> >> Peter > > At any point did you do `zpool upgrade` or `zpool set`? Maybe you > activated a zpool feature that is too new for the bootloader to > understand. You could try reinstalling the boot loader. > -Alan >
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