Re: ZFS boot problems with memory > 1MB

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 08:39:58 -0400
On Friday 09 April 2010 7:01:23 am Guido Falsi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:55:27AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 7:59:58 pm Brandon Gooch wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 5:04:03 pm Brandon Gooch wrote:
> > > >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:03 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> 
wrote:
> [...]
> > > >>
> > > >> Adding printf statements to drvread():
> > > >>
> > > >> printf("dsk->xxx: %u\n", dsk->xxx):
> > > >>
> > > >> Output:
> > > >>
> > > >> error 1 lba 48
> > > >> dsk->drive: 0
> > > >> dsk->type: 0
> > > >> dsk->unit: 0
> > > >> dsk->slice: 0
> > > >> dsk->part: 0
> > > >> dsk->init: 0
> > > >> dsk->start: 978673664
> > > >
> > > > This value looks a bit high, do you have a partition that starts at an 
> > offset
> > > > of about 466GB into the disk?
> > > >
> > > >> error 1 lba 1
> > > >> dsk->drive: 0
> > > >> dsk->type: 0
> > > >> dsk->unit: 0
> > > >> dsk->slice: 0
> > > >> dsk->part: 0
> > > >> dsk->init: 0
> > > >> dsk->start: 0
> > > >> No ZFS pools located, can't boot
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, I meant members of the 'packet' variable, though dsk->start is 
> > useful
> > > > to have as well.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > John Baldwin
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Here it is (with some crazy dsk stuff included):
> > > 
> > > error 1 lba 48
> > > packet.len: 16
> > > packet.seg: 8192
> > > packet.count: 16
> > > packet.lba: 47
> > > packet.off: 0
> > > dsk->drive: 4294967295
> > > dsk->slice: 4294967295
> > > dsk->type: 4294967295
> > > dsk->part: 4294967295
> > > dsk->unit: 4294967295
> > > dsk->init: 4294967295
> > > dsk->start: 4294967295
> > 
> > These are all -1 now which looks wrong.  The raw LBA being 47 instead of 
48 
> > would seem to indicate that that is the case though.
> > 
> > > error 1 lba 1
> > > packet.len: 16
> > > packet.seg: 8704
> > > packet.count: 1
> > > packet.lba: 1
> > > packet.off: 0
> > 
> > Odd that the lba here isn't 0.
> > 
> > Can you add some more printfs, maybe to probe_drive() to try narrow down 
how 
> > many types that is being invoked and for which drive numbers?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm seeing a very similar (perhaps the same) problem on a server I'm
> trying to configure.
> 
> Is there any news about this issue?
> 
> This server is an HP DL360G6 server. Unluckily it has a smartarray thing
> on it, the disk are behind it.
> 
> I wanted to configure a 6 drive raidz2 with the driver
> present(configured as stand alone raid0 units, this is as near you can
> go to have the smartarray give direct access to the drive to the
> system, I know this is not optimal.)
> 
> After following the RootOnZFS instructions after boot the system gives
> me the same symptoms the parent gets. Old gptzfsboot is not an option
> here. It fails to malloc. I imagine 128K heap is not enough for my
> setup.
> 
> I tried adding some more printfs but it outputs really a lot of data.
> especially from drive_probe(). I see it cycling through the drives and
> reading various addresses, what surprises me is it gets very high LBA
> numbers. For example the last try(which remains on screen) looks like
> this:
> 
> packet.len = 16
> packet.count = 16
> packet.off = 0
> packet.seg = 8192
> packet.lba = 1716867670
> dsk->drive = 133
> dsk->type = 0
> dsk->unit = 5
> dsk->slice = 0
> dsk->part = 0
> dsk->init = 0
> dsk->start = 1716867430
> 
> Hope this information helps.

What error code are you seeing, 1?

-- 
John Baldwin
Received on Fri Apr 09 2010 - 10:43:23 UTC

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