On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > George Kontostanos wrote on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:56:33 +0200: >> 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 On a second look I doubt that this has anything to do with an outdated 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. >> > > *nod* trying 'gpart bootcode -b' is on the list still, though. It > shouldn't hurt. > >> Was this a new 9.0-RC2 install? > > No, it was an upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE. > >> Also, how many devices are in the pool that you are trying to boot from? >> > > Six: mfid[0-5]p3. > >> -- >> 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"
Try loading geom_part_gpt.ko to see if it helps. -- 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"
