Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 06:17:35 -0700 From: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> To: pblok@bsd4all.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS Solaris: Cannot find the pool label Message-ID: <CAOtMX2h%2Bzyik44dqOSjzqr9a0fYZEK8pp3eXGyL7nJu_ciqigg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6A5954CF-E4B4-4CFD-BCB3-652B89F2475A@bsd4all.org> References: <6A5954CF-E4B4-4CFD-BCB3-652B89F2475A@bsd4all.org>
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 1:18=E2=80=AFAM Peter Blok <pblok@bsd4all.org> wrot= e: > > Hi, > > I have a small sized NAS with an on-board LSI SAS2308 controller in IR mo= de, but with drives presented directly. Due to space constraints I=E2=80=99= m booting of those drives, which host a RAID-Z pool. A known problem with t= he on-board controller is that it is getting to hot and over time it dies s= lowly with lots of controller resets. This happened before, but I had a spa= re MB. > > Over the weekend this started to happen with my last spare MB. I still ha= d a PCIe version of SAS2308 and plugged that with the drives into a newer m= achine, because it doesn=E2=80=99t fit in the existing case. > > The boot loader is started but it stops with Solaris: Cannot find the boo= t label for zroot > > When I add an extra drive on a SATA port and install FreeBSD ( same versi= on 13-stable of a couple of days ago ) I can import the pool ok and scrub i= t. No errors found, but booting stil fails the same way even when I physica= lly disconnect the extra drive. > > There are differences: > > - PCIe controller runs in IT mode. Reported drive size in blocks is ident= ical. Firmware is 17.0. based when the on-board had 20.0 (latest) and ran I= R in pass-thru. > - hardware is different > > Before I start upgrading firmware, I would like to investigate a bit more= . (This is my last controller and I don=E2=80=99t want to brick it with new= er firmware) > > Which label is ZFS complaining about and where is it located? > > Peter At any point did you do `zpool upgrade` or `zpool set`? Maybe you activated a zpool feature that is too new for the bootloader to understand. You could try reinstalling the boot loader. -Alan
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