On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:22:27AM -0400, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenf...@amd.com> > wrote: > > I've noticed this behaviour this morning and have been debugging it > > since. I found out that, for some unknown reason, grub fails to get the > > disk geometry, assumes 0 sectors/track and then does a divide-by-zero. > > > > I don't think this is a zfs issue. > > If the problem is on zfs code in grub/grub2, then it should be zfs issue, > right?
I thought that due to the geometry stuff the zfs code never runs, but after some more debugging I know that was wrong. These are in fact two unrelated problems. > Anyway, for comparison purposes, with ubuntu + grub2 + zfsonlinux > (which can force ashift at pool creation time) + zfs root, grub2 > won't even install on pools with ashift=12, while it works just fine > with ashift=9. There were also booting problems if you've scrubbed > rpool. > > Does zfs code for grub/grub2 also depend on Oracle releasing updates, > or is it simply a matter of no one with enough skill have looked into > it yet? I'm working on a patch for grub that fixes the ashift=12 issue. I'm probably not going to fix the div-by-zero reboot. Hans -- %SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, The operating system has been overthrown _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
