From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 19:27:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E0D106564A for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:27:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCE68FC15 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.150] (helo=smtp18.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc0Pg-0001Fc-38 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:27:04 +0200 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp18.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc0Pc-0002mQ-Qj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:27:00 +0200 Received: from [192.168.11.111] (82.73.68.175) by westmark (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 1A7D3B; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:30:19 +0200 Message-ID: <4E0B7D06.8060509@nagual.nl> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:29:10 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= References: <4E0B7221.8030206@nagual.nl> <4E0B7A99.9010504@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 7 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Qc0Pc-0002mQ-Qj X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-4.817, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90, CM_CTENC_8BIT 0.10, DOS_RCVD_IP_TWICE_B 0.00, PROLO_TRUST_RDNS -3.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: dick@nagual.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mountroot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:27:06 -0000 Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >> Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef: >>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >>> >>>> I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in >>>> a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure >>>> on a real systrem with two drives and I can't get the system to boot >>>> properly. Everytime it halts at the mountroot prompt. If I manually >>>> put zfs:zroot at the prompt the system boots to the login screen. I >>>> checked the /etc/rc.conf and the /boot/loader.conf for syntax errors >>>> but all seems well. What on earth can be the cause of this >>>> behaviour? What do I check? Help? >>> Have you specified a bootfs? >>> >>> E.g.: >>> >>> zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot >> Yes, I did. And just did it again. > Please post your /boot/loader.conf. > And did it again (zpool set bootfs=zroot zroot) ; rebooted and finally the system boots up. So, problem solved. Posts arfe being fetched. Thanks.