Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:31:32 +0300 From: "Sergey V. Dyatko" <sergey.dyatko@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gptzfsboot problem on HP P410i Smart Array Message-ID: <20140410203132.1904e09a@laptop.minsk.domain> In-Reply-To: <201404101313.22892.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <CAAG5QCs0G1ztH715j5pnsFmne30xZwUT5o_YkQW9k1dDc-=-Nw@mail.gmail.com> <7F54B772-12D4-426C-A1D6-AA559128228B@ultra-secure.de> <CAPS9%2BSv7UG-k3XYNNgvJ%2B=e9xZoFCaKvYqgTBzNsao=dw%2B9t7g@mail.gmail.com> <201404101313.22892.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:13:22 -0400 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:59:25 am Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra- > secure.de>wrote: > > > > > > > > Am 10.04.2014 um 00:02 schrieb Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>: > > > > > > > On 09/04/2014 22:52, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > >> And no, as the server is in a remote datacenter, an USB-stick is not an > > > option. > > > >> > > > >> It's slow enough booting via a virtual USB-image over iLO... > > > > > > > > Uh... it only has to read the kernel+modules from the USB stick one time > > > > while booting. Otherwise, there really shouldn't be any IO inside /boot > > > > unless you login and do stuff in that directory manually. Your root > > > > filesystem would be on the normal hard drives. > > > > > > > > Anyhow the question is moot, since you don't have the same problem I > did. > > > > > > > >> No, it's actually just a single RAID6-0 disk created by the P410i... > > > > > > > > If you're going to use the RAID controller to generate a virtual drive, > > > > do you really need to use ZFS on top of that? Couldn't you partition > > > > your virtual drive and put / onto a small UFS partition and then make a > > > > zpool on the rest? > > > > > > > > > I don't want to sacrifice two disks for a RAID1 boot-disk. > > > Normally, I would actually do that, but in this case, the server is a > > > MySQL-slave to a master that has 12 disks - and should the master die, > > > this system has to take over its work. > > > > > > You never specified exactly how it fails. But I'll take a guess: > > > > *Attempting Boot From Hard Drive (C:)* > > > > *gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 32* > > > > *gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 1* > > > > *g**ptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot* > > > > > > A workaround is > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-August/026624.html > > I believe the proper fix for that bug was committed here: > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=243025 > possible, but it doesn't help in my case (lenovo b450 laptop). I install fbsd11-current ~month ago in it and problem still persist, proposed by avg@ patch works fine in my case: Index: sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot.c =================================================================== --- sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot.c (revision 263419) +++ sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot.c (working copy) @@ -302,6 +302,7 @@ * region in the SMAP, use the last 3MB of 'extended' memory as a * high heap candidate. */ + high_heap_size = 0; if (bios_extmem >= HEAP_MIN && high_heap_size < HEAP_MIN) { high_heap_size = HEAP_MIN; high_heap_base = bios_extmem + 0x100000 - HEAP_MIN; -- wbr, tiger
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