Seeing the dreaded "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" on 9.0-CURRENT

Chris behrnetworks at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 13:28:28 UTC 2010


Doug,

Haven't tried with different GPT parameters so I guess I could try
that. It's just odd since that same guide worked for me without a
hitch on my desktop machine. I'll try that as well as dd'ing the drive
completely.

Thanks,
Chris

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:
> On 2010-02-16 20:51, Chris wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Chris<behrnetworks at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Scot,
>>>
> If you're following the wiki, then you're using GPT partitions and geom
> labels, yes?  Have you, by chance, tried the install with different GPT
> partition sizes, indexes, or labels?
>
> The reason I ask is I recently had an 8.0-STABLE box on which I installed
> ZFS root on RAIDZ1, then I decided to change my GPT and re-install.  I could
> not get it to boot from ZFS until I dd'd *all* the drives (completely, not
> just the first few MB), and started the entire installation from scratch.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Doug
>


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