From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 02:56:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564701065670 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:56:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A5E8FC0C for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3TnlGv4yp3zTk for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:40:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:39:40 -0500 From: Daniel Staal To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <2F0AA9C8CF16B52E168F9E05@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <20120215003110.GA32543@daniel3.local> References: <20120214044816.GA18161@daniel3.local> <20120215003110.GA32543@daniel3.local> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:56:48 -0000 --As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged to have said: > One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs > root. > > It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel > (self compiled) with a mountfrom error: > > http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png > mountfrom> zfs:zroot > Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []... > Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2. > > We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are > unchanged. (The zroot fs is at version 4.) > > Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't? > What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem? --As for the rest, it is mine. Did you update the bootloader? Depending on when you installed the system, it's possible your upgrading the zpool means the bootloader can't read it. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------