Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 16:19:45 +0200 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: Eduardo Lemos de Sa <eduardo.lemosdesa@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to boot from a zfs external disk Message-ID: <20170530161945.6ef8f3de@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BnjGksM6gjyZuf3z5VA%2BCAb%2BrKVL0rZC9L5bSi_TXhz89jc2g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BnjGksM6gjyZuf3z5VA%2BCAb%2BrKVL0rZC9L5bSi_TXhz89jc2g@mail.gmail.com>
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--Sig_/is7rX+0zDPZshmstIs41yXa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eduardo Lemos de Sa <eduardo.lemosdesa@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE in a internal hard disk (named, that > time, as ada0) in a zpool called zeeroot. Now, I move this hard disk to > a case (so, it is a external drive now) and it is recognized as da0. > When I tried to boot it, the process start normally but stopped at the > moment to mount partitions. Later, I used to solve problems like this > (in UFS/UFS2 file systems) booting in a live system (memory stick or CD) > and editing /etc/fstab, renaming devices. But now, there is only in > my /etc/fstab: >=20 > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > #/dev/ada0p2 none swap sw 0 0 > md99 none swap sw,file=3D/usr/swap0,late 0 = 0 >=20 > I read https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSQuickStartGuide and > https://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS, further FreeBSD Handbook. >=20 > In the two first, there is no mention about problems in boot stage using > zfs. >=20 > Further, I tried to find files under /etc/ called zfs.conf or zpool.conf > or other mentions to ada0 (grep -r -i ada0 *): nothing. In case of ZFS the root pool is specified in /boot/loader.conf with a line like: vfs.root.mountfrom=3D"zfs:tank" ZFS is supposed to figure out the location of the disk(s) itself. > Thus, I do not how can solve this mount booting problem. Please, could > you give some hint about? This bug could explain why booting fails when you use an external disk: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D208882 Fabian --Sig_/is7rX+0zDPZshmstIs41yXa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTKUNd6H/m3+ByGULIFiohV/3dUnQUCWS1/gwAKCRAFiohV/3dU nSzvAKC4C8NQ5I4nDmWpAcQqIjmQChGDUwCgwi0Oyoo6R7B/DxTVcFy0ekEFUUo= =5KD0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/is7rX+0zDPZshmstIs41yXa--
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