Hi Mark: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 23:21, Mark S Durney <mark.dur...@oracle.com> wrote: > IHAC > > Who has an x4500(x86 box) who has a zfs root filesystem. They installed > patches today, > the latest solaris 10 x86 recommended patch cluster and the patching seemed > to complete > successfully. Then when they tried to reboot the box the machine would not > boot? They > get the following error > > > NOTICE: spa_import_rootpool: error 5, Inc. All rights reserved. > Cannot mount root on > /p...@0,0/pci8086,2...@4/pci111d,8...@0/pci111d,8...@4/pci108e,2...@0/d...@0,0:a > /p...@0,0/pci8086,2...@4/pci111d,8...@0/pci111d,8...@4/pci108e,2...@0/d...@1,0:a > fstype zfs > > panic[cpu0]/thread=fffffffffbc28820: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root > > fffffffffbc4b190 genunix:vfs_mountroot+323 () > fffffffffbc4b1d0 genunix:main+a9 () > fffffffffbc4b1e0 unix:_start+95 () > > skipping system dump - no dump device configured > rebooting... > > > The customer states that he backed out the kernel patch 142901-12 and then > the x4500 boots successfully??? Has anyone seen this? It almost seems like > the zfs root pool is not being seen upon reboot??
I think I remember seeing something similar that was related to not updating the GRUB bootloader. After applying the patch, try to run "installgrub" before rebooting. > Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Hope it helps. Cheers. -- Pablo Méndez Hernández _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
