From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 14:50:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D92106564A for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:50:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wjw@digiware.nl) Received: from mail.digiware.nl (mail.ip6.digiware.nl [IPv6:2001:4cb8:1:106::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF73F8FC13 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rack1.digiware.nl (localhost.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13474153448 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:50:30 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at digiware.nl Received: from mail.digiware.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by rack1.digiware.nl (rack1.digiware.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id QjDzaVQLT8Su for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:50:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from [IPv6:2001:4cb8:3:1:28a5:9b85:57d2:5fc1] (unknown [IPv6:2001:4cb8:3:1:28a5:9b85:57d2:5fc1]) by mail.digiware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81EE215344A for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:50:27 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4D457AB1.90109@digiware.nl> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:50:25 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fs@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Errors booting of the ZFS alternative mirror disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:50:33 -0000 On 2011-01-30 15:30, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:30:58PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've configured a fresh and new Supermicro server (with an X8SIL-F >> motherboard) an 2* 500GB seagate ST3500514NS 's. >> Disks are connected to: >> atapci0: >> >> I've created gpt partitions for freebsd-boot,swap,zfs on both disks. >> Wrote gptzfsboot in boot bootsectors. >> gpart add -s 128 -b34 -t freebsd-root ad{4,6} >> gpart add -s 16G -t freebsd-swap ad{4,6} >> gpart add -s 100G -t freebsd-zfs ad{4,6} >> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad)4,6} >> >> After which I did the "regular stuff" to create the system. >> >> Which seemed to have worked because when both disks are in the >> system everything is hunky-dory and boots as expected. >> Same for booting with the second disk removed. >> >> But with only the second disk in the system, it does not boot. Not >> even when I put it in the bay of the first disk. >> >> On screen I get: >> Error 1 lba 32 >> Error 1 lba 1 >> Error 1 lba 32 >> Error 1 lba 1 >> No ZFS pools located, can't boot >> >> I browsed thru the ZFS bootcode, but that is way to sophisticated for me. >> >> So why doesn't it like to boot of the second disk? >> What did I forget to do? >> >> Which is what I would like for this system to be able to do, in case >> of failure of the first disk. > > uname -a output please. > FreeBSD big.medusa.nl 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #2: Sat Jan 29 22:11:44 CET 2011 wjw@big.medusa.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BIG amd64 Haven't tested it with this version though, but only with the build I did on 22 Jan, and then it didn't work. --WjW