From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 21:59:50 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 C13E4106566C for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:59:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f226.google.com (mail-fx0-f226.google.com [209.85.220.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 465A68FC20 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:59:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm26 with SMTP id 26so40122fxm.13 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:59:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=7DOdHR64JLItFnmErqiEMei+6ezUC07ZYkcJw/eEpYo=; b=gboU4jXJMOUlkNmZ69S1jap1rELYrD8slmndxcKZguPP1vLlY6BX3poq9kIUmLtA9V MP72ysaL5NWpIyBzc+CX6jrf1I+3ih8c+33HNn+B/SA7JebphhMICAjy3FhCcA/MTFZ8 f7qtO9u5hLYAunHuSHqcRgr3AA3bkFirG8x+M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=wlGI87vAUOXe7jumWfC0ECuypR/fYNNmroM6HKrpYhBiJuuxaAJC8Qc2DhFcImQacE PJdPykFSqt6sshtZYOxko3VI29k+Lcv+QRWIFBFUMmG0afol+isBDMVrLPZWb2EY1TYp zjoYqmFxZcFfzF57YvRP1+81U9AByaDSSfavQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.177.199 with SMTP id w7mr22293hbf.11.1264629588985; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:59:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <867hr46fl0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:59:48 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: Ross Penner Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: George Liaskos , Steve Bertrand , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Randal L. Schwartz" 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: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:59:50 -0000 2010/1/27 Ross Penner > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Randal L. Schwartz > wrote: > >>>>>> "Ross" == Ross Penner writes: > > > > Ross> That seems to have been the problem. > > > > Yes, what I learned the hard way is that every single step there needs to > be > > precisely followed, without deviation, even if you don't understand it or > > think it's important. :) > > Yes! But because I was extra anal retentive this time around, I've run > into some more trouble. I have 2 disks and I only added one when I > created the zroot pool. Now that my system is booted I figured I could > just go 'zpool add -f zroot /dev/gpt/disk1' but I get the error > message: "cannot add to 'zroot': root pool cannot have multiple vdevs > or seperate logs". > > I prepared the second disk in a similar manner to the first: "gpart -t > freebsd-zfs -l disk1 ad6". > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated! > u need to attach the drive create a mirror, adding creates a new vdev ie creates a stripe aka raid0