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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:15:26 +0200
From:      George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail@gmail.com>
To:        Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@apache.org>
Cc:        infrastructure-private@apache.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zroot won't mount after 9.0-RC2 -> 9.0-RELEASE upgrade
Message-ID:  <CA%2BdUSyquwm%2B%2B%2BcjWusfCBwbYO8yN-55xZAjfdAR4sjo3685Vww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120215030934.GA7135@daniel3.local>
References:  <20120214044816.GA18161@daniel3.local> <20120215003110.GA32543@daniel3.local> <2F0AA9C8CF16B52E168F9E05@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20120215030934.GA7135@daniel3.local>

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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@apache.org> wrote:
> Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500:
>> --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.
>>
>
> Immediately after upgrading the zroot zpool I ran
>
>    gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}
>
> as instructed in /usr/src/UPDATING.  I did not pass -b.
>
>> Daniel T. Staal

Hi could you try passing the -b switch like this:

gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices}


-- 
George Kontostanos
Aicom telecoms ltd
http://www.aisecure.net



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