From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 22:32:25 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 BAD4110656AB for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:32:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f194.google.com (mail-yw0-f194.google.com [209.85.211.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723A78FC24 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:32:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh32 with SMTP id 32so55963ywh.14 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=LzyjreRK+vZqUVFnA9jxIfeD9tCzKqmPDwXSUEGsqVc=; b=fyCfUkyqiTwNo0nJxuyAEk6OEOMfJE8IA/h+XHKJbM+lxk04IVDoyIQTzTllnS1p3H V98vdgP5iBjQU2aVldbmIWUXwZjRH5eTtXciEJoqlcORkgu7VyCZ4W16zTB34toTyRSl ccRcwW1MEW8lrtLHbsdzA9zqTsav8B/2Ayo8M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=LBdeJI3aWnhZ5lAjJEtnwkoS6qRrvqHVfwghfg3kMQYO4n6CdYRtZwyzZKJlr843f0 PR5Sw4IAaFNWTF8sYCy7hU3w/Qz9S+WqziX8gG0gol5WjumtTX1Mrbgv8QRW071LzuO+ wAvY82VMLmfNz6T7A3yLaoIH7iZC9/3XJ1STw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.219.9 with SMTP id r9mr3673727agg.85.1264631544710; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <867hr46fl0.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> From: Ross Penner Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:32:04 -0800 Message-ID: To: krad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 22:32:25 -0000 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:59 PM, krad wrote: > > > 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 > I didn't want a mirror though, I wanted a stripe. I still don't understand why what I'm doing isn't working.