Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 09:23:42 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange boot failure Message-ID: <fc123021-0d28-458d-9ad6-7f92bdd747dd@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <agYGdtjCFW_BlIH3@eldanna.ocaml.nl>
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On 14/05/2026 18:40, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > Hello, > > Asking hive mind: what could I forget? > > I have nda1, which I wanted to remove from the system. It has GPT > partition table: > > => 40 488397088 nda1 GPT (233G) > 40 4194304 1 zfs-main-log (2.0G) > 4194344 41943040 2 zefs-main-arc (20G) > 46137384 8388608 3 zfs-16tb-log (4.0G) > 54525992 83886080 4 zfs-16tb-arc (40G) > 138412072 134217728 5 ssd-swap (64G) > 272629800 215767328 6 ssd-1st-rest (103G) > > I did "zpool remove zroot /dev/gpt/gfs-main-log" and > "zpool remove zroot /dev/gpt/gfs-main-arc". I edited /etc/fstab and removed > swap entry for nda1. Then I powered off the machine, removed nda1 and powered > it on again. The system went into reboot loop (the bootloader starts, I think > it starts booting the kernel, but almost immediately the system reboots). I put > nda1 back, and the system boots fine (actually I'm writing this from it). > Obviously, I forgot something. What could it be? Some reference to nda1 in /boot/zfs/zpool.cache perhaps? zdb -C to dump it. Regards, Frank.home | help
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