On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danie...@apache.org> wrote: > Daniel Staal wrote on Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 21:39:40 -0500: >> --As of February 15, 2012 2:31:10 AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf is alleged >> to have said: >> >> >One of our amd64 servers runs 9.0-RC2 (releng/9.0@r228325) with a zfs >> >root. >> > >> >It fails to boot the 9.0-RELEASE (releng/9.0@r229305) GENERIC kernel >> >(self compiled) with a mountfrom error: >> > >> > http://people.apache.org/~danielsh/infra/loki-20120215-mountfrom.png >> > mountfrom> zfs:zroot >> > Trying to mount root from zfs:zroot []... >> > Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 2. >> > >> >We've tried to upgrade the zpool format 15->28; the symptoms are >> >unchanged. (The zroot fs is at version 4.) >> > >> >Why does 9.0-RC2 boot while 9.0-RELEASE (as /boot/testkernel) doesn't? >> >What can do to boot 9.0-RELEASE from our zfs root filesystem? >> >> --As for the rest, it is mine. >> >> Did you update the bootloader? Depending on when you installed the >> system, it's possible your upgrading the zpool means the bootloader >> can't read it. >> > > Immediately after upgrading the zroot zpool I ran > > gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices} > > as instructed in /usr/src/UPDATING. I did not pass -b. > >> Daniel T. Staal
Hi could you try passing the -b switch like this: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ${devices} -- George Kontostanos Aicom telecoms ltd http://www.aisecure.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"