Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:58:07 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Suddenly "BTX halted" on boot Message-ID: <9144867a-1a15-573c-1796-b94c8344b767@netfence.it>
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Hello.
I've got a server which has been working for years; this morning I
rebooted it and it wouldn't come up (showing the message in subject).
Luckily, this is a ZFS RAID1 setup, so entering the BIOS and choosing to
boot from the other HD got me up and running.
I don't have any idea how this could have happened, smartctl says both
disks are good and I've never seen errors in the logs. "zpool status"
also says everything is fine.
# gpart show /dev/ada0
=> 40 1953525088 ada0 GPT (932G)
40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
1064 67108864 2 freebsd-swap (32G)
67109928 1886415192 3 freebsd-zfs (900G)
1953525120 8 - free - (4.0K)
Same for ada1.
I believe I should solve, by issuing the following command:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada1
However I thought I'd ask for confirmation before screwing everything.
I guess ada0 is always where I'm currently booting from, right?
Of course I have dumps and backups, but I'd rather not need to use them
this time :)
bye & Thanks
av.
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