From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 11:28:58 2011 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 F29D9106566C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aldis@bsdroot.lv) Received: from smtp.bsdroot.lv (smtp.bsdroot.lv [83.241.11.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BE98FC1D for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.bsdroot.lv (root.bsdroot.lv [83.241.11.135]) by smtp.bsdroot.lv (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9A86163; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:28:37 +0300 (EEST) Received: from desktop.pc (mpe-11-155.mpe.lv [83.241.11.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.bsdroot.lv (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5005E6162; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:28:36 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:28:55 +0300 From: Aldis Berjoza To: Berczi Gabor 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) X-PGP-Key: 0xCCBA39FA X-PGP-Key-Fingerprint: 800C C77B A57E 98A0 821F 7D24 2AC0 DB19 CCBA 39FA X-PGP-PublicKey: http://files.bsdroot.lv/my/aldis_berjoza.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS boot fails with two pools 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: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:28:59 -0000 On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:19:50 +0300 Volodymyr Kostyrko 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/