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Date:      Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:28:55 +0300
From:      Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
To:        Berczi Gabor <freebsd@berczi.be>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS boot fails with two pools
Message-ID:  <20110707142855.3000b528@desktop.pc>
In-Reply-To: <4E158846.4040807@gmail.com>
References:  <12DA9EAC-8677-49AD-BA6C-5A155D2A6122@berczi.be> <4E14C0D9.9040503@gmail.com> <2040FCF6-2CA2-4CF3-BB78-F5A3069297FF@berczi.be> <4E158846.4040807@gmail.com>

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On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:19:50 +0300
Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> wrote:


> >
> >> You can boot from any of the drives and as long as the BIOS can see
> >> enough drives you should be able to boot.
> >
> > In my case, the BIOS certainly can not see all members of the
> > raid-z pool. The question is: why does it want to boot from raid-z
> > at all, and how could it be persuaded to use the mirrored pool
> > instead?
> 
> Actuall I think that code on that stages just tries to boot from the 
> pool on the current disk.
> 

Does your /boot/loader.conf have:

vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:tank/root"
zfs_load="YES"

Does FreeBSD bootloader actually starts to load? (Do you get to FreeBSD
boot menu?)

Does your system pool use compression? Which compression?

-- 
Aldis Berjoza
  http://www.bsdroot.lv/



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