From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 22:12:53 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 C17DC106579F for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:12:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4424C8FC12 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:12:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5TMCF4U030651; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:12:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p5TMCFhL030648; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:12:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:12:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Dick Hoogendijk In-Reply-To: <4E0B7D06.8060509@nagual.nl> Message-ID: References: <4E0B7221.8030206@nagual.nl> <4E0B7A99.9010504@nagual.nl> <4E0B7D06.8060509@nagual.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-902635197-792449819-1309385535=:30628" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:12:15 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= 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 22:12:53 -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. ---902635197-792449819-1309385535=:30628 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > 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. If it's a timeout problem, there's kern.cam.boot_delay=10000. ---902635197-792449819-1309385535=:30628--