From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 19:15:31 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 72EE31065673 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:15:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) Received: from smtp.fagskolen.gjovik.no (smtp.fagskolen.gjovik.no [IPv6:2001:700:1100:1:200:ff:fe00:b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E994D8FC1B for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:15:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.fig.ol.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.fig.ol.no (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5TJFIKO051967 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:15:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by mail.fig.ol.no (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p5TJFI1n051964; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:15:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.fig.ol.no: trond owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:15:18 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= Sender: Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no To: Dick Hoogendijk In-Reply-To: <4E0B7221.8030206@nagual.nl> Message-ID: References: <4E0B7221.8030206@nagual.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fagskolen_i_Gj=F8vik?= OpenPGP: url=http://fig.ol.no/~trond/trond.key MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="2055831798-804895161-1309374918=:47357" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on mail.fig.ol.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 19:15:31 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --2055831798-804895161-1309374918=:47357 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no ACM, NAS, NUUG, SAGE, USENIX | FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE & Alpine 2.00 --2055831798-804895161-1309374918=:47357--