Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:20:52 -0500 From: Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS root, error 2 when mounting root Message-ID: <D011786B-A200-4F2A-94EA-B8C7BF741D1B@kraus-haus.org> In-Reply-To: <512B7FD0.6040405@gmail.com> References: <5129E079.4040906@gmail.com> <F3EDE81C-EFE5-404D-9559-E4E7AAF14D60@kraus-haus.org> <512B7FD0.6040405@gmail.com>
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On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:14 AM, bw <bw.mail.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/25/2013 03:13 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: >> On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:42 AM, bw.mail.lists <bw.mail.lists@gmail.com> = wrote: >>=20 >>> Basically, I tried to follow = https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE, but ended up = with a system that didn't know how to mount /. >>>=20 >>> There are two scripts attached. >>=20 >> I did not see any attachments. >>=20 >=20 > Mail list got rid of them, I didn't know it will do that. Appended = inline at the end of this mail. Stuff will probably get wrapped, but at = least it's there. >=20 > That was my understanding, too, but the instructions on the wiki say = there's no need to copy the cache file. In fact, there is no cache file = to copy, since the pool is created with >=20 > zpool create -o altroot=3D/mnt -O canmount=3Doff zroot mirror = /dev/gpt/g0zfs /dev/gpt/g1zfs >=20 > No cache file. The wiki article was changed recently to eliminate that = part, the message on the wiki is: "Fix so that the default instructions = does not install data directly to the zroot pool. Simplify instructions = regarding cache files, they are no longer needed. Fixes and cleanups." >=20 > Either the instructions are wrong, or something in my script is. I = assume it's my script. The instructions noted above are now INCORRECT for 9.0 (I have = not tried this with 9.1 yet) as you MUST manually put the zpool.cache = file in place for it to work correctly (I tried a couple different = variations when I first setup my systems a few months ago and learned = this the hard way :-) I have *lost* of experience with ZFS under Solaris = 10 but am relatively new (about a year) to FreeBSD. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company
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