Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:58:24 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: Can't boot on ZFS -- /boot/zfsloader not found Message-ID: <CAGSa5y12dKYF-sG5at7zeqttYnZHuSHcC0Zpn7rsekgeFCaRUg@mail.gmail.com>
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(Sorry I had to copy-paste this email from the archives to a new thread, because I'm not subscribed to -stable@. Would you mind cc:ing me next time please?) > As your not at the boot loader stage yet for keyboard enabling legacy > USB keyboard / mouse support in BIOS may help. That worked, thanks for the tip. > If you see issues with keyboard after the kernel takes over setting > hint.ehci.0.disabled=1 may help. > > If your installing 11.x then the guides boot partition size is out of > date and you should use 512K for your freebsd-boot partition. Oh, really? I'll update it once I'll have figure it all out. That's weird though because /boot/gptzfsboot is less than 90 KB. > For the GPT version (I've never used MBR one) what actual error do you get? When I just start up the NUC, I get: """ \Can't find /boot/zfsloader FreeBSD/x86 boot Default: zroot:/boot/kernel/kernel boot: \ Can't find /boot/kernel/kernel """ I though it was the first stage boot loader, but it may be the second stage. -jlh > > On 11/01/2017 19:22, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the process of transferring my home server to an Intel NUC. I've zfs > > send/receive'd the whole pool to the new drive and first followed > > [ZfsOnGpt] but it fails in the first stage boot loader. The USB keyboard > > doesn't seem to be recognized so I can't really debug anything. > > > > Then I tried both [ZfsInMbrSlice] > > but it complains that it can't find /boot/zfsloader. Again USB keyboard > > doesn't work. > > > > Both times I've been very careful to install the bootcodes at the right > > place. > > > > 1. Any idea why the USB keyboard doesn't work? > > 2. Any idea what can be wrong in the setups I tried? How can I debug this? > > > > [ZfsOnGpt] https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot > > [ZfsInMbrSlice] https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition > > > > -jlh > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" -- Jeremie Le Hen jlh@FreeBSD.org
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