Re: Seeing the dreaded "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" on 9.0-CURRENT

Xin,

The only thing I copied over was the zpool.cache file, as per the
wiki. Should I have copied over the entire /boot/zfs folder?

Thanks,
Chris

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net> wrote:
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> On 2010/02/16 18:03, Chris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to install CURRENT a single drive ZFS on root setup using
>> the guide located here:
>>
>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot
>>
>> This is on an amd64-based Acer 5516 laptop. I'm able to complete the
>> installation, however, when I boot, the system stops at the boot
>> loader with several "error 1 lba xxx" (where xxx is some large number)
>> errors and the "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" error.
>> When I issue the "status" command at the boot loader, I see only the
>> GPT partition and the ZFS pool. Should I also see any physical
>> devices? I strongly suspect that the BIOS on this laptop is up to some
>> sort of chicanery but it's hard to say so definitively since I can
>> install and boot to a regular UFS-based FreeBSD installation. I've
>> confirmed this on 8.0-RELEASE and 9.0-CURRENT. I've also made sure to
>> delete any UFS and GPT partitions as well as any ZFS pools before
>> installing to be sure that I'm installing on a clean disk. Also, I've
>> tried building the bootloader (even though the guide said it's
>> depreciated as of 8.0-STABLE and 9.0-CURRENT) as well as installing
>> the boot blocks, both to no avail.
>>
>> Any ideas and/or suggestions would greatly be appreciated!
>
> Just a wild guess...  Did you copied the /boot/zfs folder to the target
> file system?
>
> Cheers,
> - --
> Xin LI <delphij_at_delphij.net>    http://www.delphij.net/
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