Re: gptzfsboot doesn't like change (failure after swapping drives)

From: George Hartzell <hartzell_at_alerce.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:27:32 -0700
Scot Hetzel writes:
 > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM, George Hartzell<hartzell_at_alerce.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > I've been playing around with building an 8.0BETA2 system with
 > > everything on a single zfs filesystem (I'll get fancier later) on a
 > > zpool that is a 4 disk raidz.  I'm using GPT partitions and glabels so
 > > that I can move the drives around w/out drama.
 > >
 > > Things work well, but if I swap a pair of drives then try to boot I
 > > get the message that other folks have reported:
 > >
 > >  ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable.
 > >  ZFS: can't read MOS
 > >  ZFS: unexpected object set type lld
 > >  ZFS: unexpected object set type lld
 > >
 > > Then a couple of boot: prompts.
 > >
 > > If I boot off of the 8.0BETA2 media I can import the pool, even with
 > > the drives in different slots.
 > >
 > > When I put the drives back into their original slots (verified by
 > > booting the USB stick and checking with glabel status) I still can't
 > > boot off of them, which surprised me a bit.
 > >
 > > Can anyone suggest something that I might be able to do to get a
 > > system in this state to boot?  I've tried importing and exporting and
 > > importing the pool several times.
 > >
 > I haven't tested this, but try the following:
 > 
 > 1. boot the 8.0BETA install/fixit media
 > 2. goto the fixit environment
 > 3. Create /boot/zfs directory
 > 4. load the kernel modules opensolaris.ko and zfs.ko
 > 5. import the pool, and mount the root filesystem on /mnt
 > 6. Copy /boot/zfs/zpool.cache to /mnt/boot/zfs
 > 7. Reboot the system

I'd tried that, just did it again to be sure.  Didn't help.  I don't
think that the {gpt,}zfsboot code uses that file, I think that's a
kernel thing.

g.
Received on Thu Jul 23 2009 - 02:27:34 UTC

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