Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:43:38 +0200 From: Sergiy Suprun <sergiy.suprun@gmail.com> To: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS raidz Message-ID: <9c7c50c51001061243v5f4acd2dmef9507e5b3cfc365@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <15FCFBD0-9B68-421B-A99C-1038BAD61362@gmail.com> References: <15FCFBD0-9B68-421B-A99C-1038BAD61362@gmail.com>
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Hi. Some time ago I follow instruction from this wiki http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS and I had a problem like yours. After some experiments I build loader from CURRENT, and boot fine from raidz2 zpool. I don't know, may be now this code avialable in 8-STABLE. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 20:25, Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm experimenting with a ZFS only system and booting from it in VirtualBox. > Thanks to various mails and forum posts from the net I have a working > scenario with booting from a ZFS mirror. However, I can't get the thing to > work with raidz with the exactly same setup, except that the pool is now > raidz instead of mirror and there is one more disk. I feel sure I have all > the stuff with partitioning, boot loader installation, etc. right. I tested > this with version 8.0-RELEASE on 64bit. > > Now, before I go into detailed explaining, is raidz really supported? I > always get the following error after it says "FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, > Revision 1.1": > > ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable > ZFS: can't read MOS object directory > (repeats a lot) > Can't find root filesystem - giving up > can't load 'kernel' > > I think the "MOS" message comes from zfs_mount_root() in > /usr/src/sys/boot/zfs/zfsimpl.c. I asume that is the point when /boot/loader > has been loaded and now wants to load the kernel into memory. After that > error I'm in the loader prompt. When I try to load any file I always get the > same error as above. > > Anyone any ideas? > > Thanks, > Anselm_______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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