Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:25:21 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com>, Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help booting FreeBSD with a ZFS root filesystem Message-ID: <d36406631001260625o1b930818x252a0d37c6955853@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d36406631001260624v6a988263t1acd95c51de6f248@mail.gmail.com> References: <f80199c41001251331q1552da27v7c3c87096118311c@mail.gmail.com> <a57b43541001251729t7476aaftcf4a8c91364b2a6e@mail.gmail.com> <f80199c41001260051w7a7b4854t4ef31d53c6b0a79f@mail.gmail.com> <d36406631001260403i7acf19f2q6dba65bc2fe9820a@mail.gmail.com> <4B5EE153.9050402@ibctech.ca> <d36406631001260624v6a988263t1acd95c51de6f248@mail.gmail.com>
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2010/1/26 krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> > > > 2010/1/26 Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> > > krad wrote: >> > 2010/1/26 Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com> >> > >> >> That seems to have been the problem. >> >> >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:29 PM, George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com >> > >> >> wrote: >> >>> I had the same issue because i forgot to copy the zpool.cache under >> >>> /zroot/boot/zfs. >> >> > once you have generated the zpool.cache never never never export the >> boot >> > pool again. Exporting isnt the same as unmounting (a common >> misconception). >> > If you do export it the pool will become unbootable. >> >> Out of curiosity (because I had this problem a few weeks back), how does >> one move a bootable pool into another physical server in order to be >> able to see the pool as a 'data' set without exporting/importing, and >> then moving the pool back to the hardware that it normally boots from? >> >> Perhaps I was lucky when copying the cache back onto itself worked... >> >> Steve >> > > with difficulty i suspect. You will probably have to specify an alternate > root and zpool.cache file. Then copy the cache file onto the zpool before > powering down, and NOT exporting. > > If you don't use an alternate zpool.cache file I suspect you will get > issues as the test systems zpools will be referenced in there, and will > cause a pickle when you bring the broken system up. > > Its probably best to use a non zfs based rescue system just to keep things > simpler. > > > > > Not sure if there will be any issues with hostid being different. I presume the pool is imported with a -f option on boot
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