On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer_at_ultra-secure.de>wrote: > > Am 10.04.2014 um 00:02 schrieb Matthew Seaman <matthew_at_FreeBSD.org>: > > > On 09/04/2014 22:52, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> And no, as the server is in a remote datacenter, an USB-stick is not an > option. > >> > >> It's slow enough booting via a virtual USB-image over iLO... > > > > Uh... it only has to read the kernel+modules from the USB stick one time > > while booting. Otherwise, there really shouldn't be any IO inside /boot > > unless you login and do stuff in that directory manually. Your root > > filesystem would be on the normal hard drives. > > > > Anyhow the question is moot, since you don't have the same problem I did. > > > >> No, it's actually just a single RAID6-0 disk created by the P410i... > > > > If you're going to use the RAID controller to generate a virtual drive, > > do you really need to use ZFS on top of that? Couldn't you partition > > your virtual drive and put / onto a small UFS partition and then make a > > zpool on the rest? > > > I don't want to sacrifice two disks for a RAID1 boot-disk. > Normally, I would actually do that, but in this case, the server is a > MySQL-slave to a master that has 12 disks - and should the master die, > this system has to take over its work. > > You never specified exactly how it fails. But I'll take a guess: *Attempting Boot From Hard Drive (C:)* *gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 32* *gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 1* *g**ptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot* A workaround is http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-August/026624.html Best regards AndreasReceived on Thu Apr 10 2014 - 02:59:27 UTC
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