From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 17:16:04 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 00F0C6DF; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigwig.baldwin.cx [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:75::1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC7C81B76; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB733B9A5; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:16:02 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gptzfsboot problem on HP P410i Smart Array Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:13:22 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.4-CBSD-20130906; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <7F54B772-12D4-426C-A1D6-AA559128228B@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201404101313.22892.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:16:02 -0400 (EDT) Cc: Matthew Seaman , Rainer Duffner , Andreas Nilsson X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 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, 10 Apr 2014 17:16:04 -0000 On Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:59:25 am Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > > > Am 10.04.2014 um 00:02 schrieb Matthew Seaman : > > > > > On 09/04/2014 22:52, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > >> And no, as the server is in a remote datacenter, an USB-stick is not an > > option. > > >> > > >> It's slow enough booting via a virtual USB-image over iLO... > > > > > > Uh... it only has to read the kernel+modules from the USB stick one time > > > while booting. Otherwise, there really shouldn't be any IO inside /boot > > > unless you login and do stuff in that directory manually. Your root > > > filesystem would be on the normal hard drives. > > > > > > Anyhow the question is moot, since you don't have the same problem I did. > > > > > >> No, it's actually just a single RAID6-0 disk created by the P410i... > > > > > > If you're going to use the RAID controller to generate a virtual drive, > > > do you really need to use ZFS on top of that? Couldn't you partition > > > your virtual drive and put / onto a small UFS partition and then make a > > > zpool on the rest? > > > > > > I don't want to sacrifice two disks for a RAID1 boot-disk. > > Normally, I would actually do that, but in this case, the server is a > > MySQL-slave to a master that has 12 disks - and should the master die, > > this system has to take over its work. > > > > You never specified exactly how it fails. But I'll take a guess: > > *Attempting Boot From Hard Drive (C:)* > > *gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 32* > > *gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 1* > > *g**ptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot* > > > A workaround is > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-August/026624.html I believe the proper fix for that bug was committed here: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=243025 -- John Baldwin