From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 26 15:42:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B851065676 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:42:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from blue.stonehenge.com (cl-52.chi-02.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4978:f:33::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646738FC22 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by blue.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F29421DE35D; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:41:59 -0800 (PST) To: krad References: <4B5EE153.9050402@ibctech.ca> From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.17.1.0; tzolkin = 10 Ahau; haab = 18 Muan Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:41:59 -0800 In-Reply-To: (kraduk@googlemail.com's message of "Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:25:21 +0000") Message-ID: <863a1s6fg8.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, George Liaskos , Steve Bertrand , Ross Penner Subject: Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:42:00 -0000 >>>>> "krad" == krad writes: krad> Not sure if there will be any issues with hostid being different. I krad> presume the pool is imported with a -f option on boot No. The bootloader will not work with drives that were not imported at time of shutdown. One of the things I learned the hard way. I kept "exporting" after installation, out of my OCD to "cleanly unmount" everything before shutting down, and then cursed at my machine for not seeing the disk on boot. After four times of installing from scratch, I finally followed the instructions precisely (*without* the export), and it worked just fine. So, no, the bootloader will not import and especially not import -f. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion