Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:40:53 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> Subject: Re: can not boot from RAIDZ with 8-STABLE Message-ID: <4E4C1945.5030504@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <CAFqOu6hQzzwrTpuyddqrODr8WP4Ke0pi7MoYhYL9ivfsNHxNhA@mail.gmail.com> References: <4E4BC38D.1050808@quip.cz> <4E4BCCC3.60601@digsys.bg> <CAFqOu6hQzzwrTpuyddqrODr8WP4Ke0pi7MoYhYL9ivfsNHxNhA@mail.gmail.com>
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Artem Belevich wrote: > 2011/8/17 Daniel Kalchev<daniel@digsys.bg>: >> On 17.08.11 16:35, Miroslav Lachman wrote: >>> >>> I tried mfsBSD installation on Dell T110 with PERC H200A and 4x 500GB SATA >>> disks. If I create zpool with RAIDZ, the boot immediately hangs with >>> following error: >>> >> May be it that the BIOS does not see all drives at boot? > > Indeed. On one of my systems BIOS only allows access to the first four > HDDs in the BIOS' boot priority list. What's especially annoying is > that BIOS keep rearranging boot list every time new device is added or > removed or if SATA controller card is moved to another slot. Every > time it happens I have to go back and rearrange the drives so that my > RAIDZ drives are on top of the list. > > If you can boot off CD or USB how many drives does bootloader report > just before it gets to the menu? Thank you guys, you are right. The BIOS provides only 1 disk to the loader! I checked it from loader prompt by lsdev (booted from USB external HDD). So I will try to make a small zpool mirror for root and boot (if ZFS mirror can be made of 4 providers instead of two) and the rest will be in RAIDZ. If that fails, I will go my old way with internal USB flash disk with UFS for booting and RAIDZ of 4 disks for storage as I did it few years ago with 7.0 or 7.1. Thank you again! Miroslav Lachman
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