On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM, George Kontostanos <gkontos.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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} >
On a second look I doubt that this has anything to do with an outdated bootcode. Was this a new 9.0-RC2 install? Also, how many devices are in the pool that you are trying to boot from? -- 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"
