On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:44+0500, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > > So, I'm still struggling with my problem when I cannot boot from a big > zfs 2T pool (I have written some messages about a year ago, the whole > story is too long and irrelevant to retell it, I'll only notice that I > took the path where I'm about to boot from a separate zfs pool closer to > the beginning of the disk). > > I've created such a smaller pool, called it zboot. I've read pjd@ letter > explaining that when FreeBSD sees several bootable pools, it chooses the > first one - that's fine with me, since the new pool partition's number > is smaller than the big one. So, I created zboot, set the mountpoint to > legacy, wrote the content to it's /boot directory (and yes, I did call > the 'make installkernel DESTDIR=/zboot') and rebooted.
Are you sure /zboot/boot/zfsloader, /zboot/boot/kernel/kernel, /zboot/boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko, and /zboot/boot/kernel/zfs.ko exists when you manually mount the bootfs as /zboot? What's the bootfs properties on these pools? Run: zpool get bootfs For both pools the bootfs property should probably be unset. I have never unset a bootfs property in my life, but maybe this will work: zpool set bootfs= zboot zpool set bootfs= zroot I have a similar setup in a VM at home due to Oracle VirtualBox in EFI mode only presenting two drives at boot time, where zboot/BOOT/20160428-r298705 is set as the bootfs on the zboot pool, and the mountpoint is set to /bootpool. Further, boot/loader.conf on the small bootfs redirects the kernel to use zroot/ROOT/20160428-r298705 as the rootfs, i.e. vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot/ROOT/20160428-r298705". The rootfs contains a symlink named boot, pointing to bootpool/boot. "df / /bootpool" will show something similar to this: zroot/ROOT/20160428-r298705 / zboot/BOOT/20160428-r298705 /bootpool > Strage thing happened next - I got > > > Can't find /boot/zfsloader > > FreeBSD/x86 boot > Default: zboot:/boot/kernel/kernel > boot: > | > Can't find /boot/kernel/kernel > > > I booted back from USB stick (that I'm using to boot my machine) and > rechecked these files - everything mentioned here is in it's place. > > Does someone have the idea what I'm doing wrong ? May be this has > something to do with the fact that zboot does contain only the /boot > directory, and not the full rootfs ? > > Thanks. > Eugene. -- +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Vennlig hilsen, | Best regards, | | Trond Endrestøl, | Trond Endrestøl, | | IT-ansvarlig, | System administrator, | | Fagskolen Innlandet, | Gjøvik Technical College, Norway, | | tlf. mob. 952 62 567, | Cellular...: +47 952 62 567, | | sentralbord 61 14 54 00. | Switchboard: +47 61 14 54 00. | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
