Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:25:07 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changes to kern.geom.debugflags? Message-ID: <20121225232507.GA47735@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <6A0C1005-F328-4C4C-BB83-CA463BD85127@distal.com> References: <7AA0B5D0-D49C-4D5A-8FA0-AA57C091C040@distal.com> <6A0C1005-F328-4C4C-BB83-CA463BD85127@distal.com>
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 07:35:57PM -0500, Chris Ross wrote:
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> On Dec 23, 2012, at 16:56 , Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com> wrote:
> > I had brought up a machine months ago with freebsd-9-stable. I configured it to boot off of a single disk, with ZFS, expecting I would likely later attach the other disk to the zpool. I tried to do that today, but find that I can't write the bootloader to either disk.
> >
> > gpart: /dev/da0a: Operation not permitted
> >
> > [...]
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> Okay. It occurred to me today what was likely the problem. I was running, even when single user, off of the zfs pool on the disks I was trying to write the bootloader to.
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> I tar'd up /boot after my recent install from a Dec 22 9-stable, and moved it off-host. Then, I booted off of the July stable-9 CD-ROM I have in the machine, and was able to write bootblocks (with gpart bootcode) and a bootloader (dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/${disk}a bs=512 oseek=1024 conv=notrunc).
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> Now, the new problem. When I try to boot my sparc64 with these bits, I see:
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> >> FreeBSD/sparc64 ZFS boot block
> Boot path: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a
> Consoles: Open Firmware console
> ERROR: Last Trap: Division by Zero
>
> {1} ok
>
> So, does anyone know if something has gone unstable in the sparc64 zfsboot in recent months? If I boot from the cdrom again and load the July zfsboot via gpart bootcode, it boots correctly again.
>
Please see
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2012/freebsd-sparc64/20121223.freebsd-sparc64
and provide debug information.
Marius
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