From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 31 07:18:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF0D106566B for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 07:18:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from mx.egr.msu.edu (surfnturf.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E558FC1E for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 07:18:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C76B71F35C; Sun, 31 May 2009 03:18:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at egr.msu.edu Received: from mx.egr.msu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (surfnturf.egr.msu.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7vE0bVY9adHR; Sun, 31 May 2009 03:18:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (daemon.egr.msu.edu [35.9.44.65]) by mx.egr.msu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA25271F34E; Sun, 31 May 2009 03:18:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 21281) id A79B488B; Sun, 31 May 2009 03:18:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 03:18:00 -0400 From: Adam McDougall To: Lorenzo Perone Message-ID: <20090531071759.GA35763@egr.msu.edu> References: <29579856-69F7-4CDC-A52A-B414A40180ED@yellowspace.net> <4A1B0B4F.1020106@h3q.com> <18972.5870.795005.186542@already.dhcp.gene.com> <4A1C18CC.7080902@icyb.net.ua> <18972.7173.216763.407615@already.dhcp.gene.com> <63548432-B73D-4A08-BA99-FEF5BCC1028A@yellowspace.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <63548432-B73D-4A08-BA99-FEF5BCC1028A@yellowspace.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: Mickael MAILLOT , FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 07:18:02 -0000 I encountered the same symptoms today on both a 32bit and 64bit brand new install using gptzfsboot. It works for me when I use a copy of loader from an 8-current box with zfs support compiled in. I haven't looked into it much yet but it might help you. If you want, you can try the loader I am using from: http://www.egr.msu.edu/~mcdouga9/loader On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:41:42PM +0200, Lorenzo Perone wrote: On 28.05.2009, at 21:46, Mickael MAILLOT wrote: > hi, > > did you erase gmirror meta ? (on the last sector) > with: gmirror clear ad6 ohps I had forgotten that. just did it (in single user mode), but it didn't help :( Shall I repeat any of the other steps after clearing gmirror meta? thanx a lot for your help... Lorenzo > 2009/5/28 Lorenzo Perone : >> Hi, >> >> I tried hard... but without success ;( >> >> the result is, when choosing the disk with the zfs boot >> sectors in it (in my case F5, which goes to ad6), the kernel >> is not found. the console shows: >> >> forth not found >> definitions not found >> only not found >> (the above repeated several times) >> >> can't load 'kernel' >> >> and I get thrown to the loader prompt. >> lsdev does not show any ZFS devices. >> >> Strange thing: if I boot from the other disk, F1, which is my >> ad4 containing the normal ufs system I used to make up the other >> one, and escape to the loader prompt, lsdev actually sees the >> zpool which is on the other disk, and shows: >> zfs0: tank >> >> I tried booting with boot zfs:tank or zfs:tank:/boot/kernel/kernel, >> but there I get the panic: free: guard1 fail message. >> (would boot zfs:tank:/boot/kernel/kernel be correct, anyways?) >> >> Sure I'm doing something wrong, but what...? Is it a problem that >> the pool is made out of the second disk only (ad6)? >> >> Here are my details (note: latest stable and biosdisk.c merged >> with changes shown in r185095. no problems in buildworld/kernel): >> (....) _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"