Errors booting of the ZFS alternative mirror disk

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:30:58PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've configured a fresh and new Supermicro server (with an X8SIL-F
> motherboard) an 2* 500GB seagate  ST3500514NS 's.
> Disks are connected to:
> 	atapci0: <Intel 5 Series/3400 Series PCH SATA300 controller>
> 
> I've created gpt partitions for freebsd-boot,swap,zfs on both disks.
> Wrote gptzfsboot in boot bootsectors.
> gpart add -s 128 -b34 -t freebsd-root ad{4,6}
> gpart add -s 16G      -t freebsd-swap ad{4,6}
> gpart add -s 100G     -t freebsd-zfs  ad{4,6}
> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad)4,6}
> 
> After which I did the "regular stuff" to create the system.
> 
> Which seemed to have worked because when both disks are in the
> system everything is hunky-dory and boots as expected.
> Same for booting with the second disk removed.
> 
> But with only the second disk in the system, it does not boot. Not
> even when I put it in the bay of the first disk.
> 
> On screen I get:
> Error 1  lba 32
> Error 1  lba 1
> Error 1  lba 32
> Error 1  lba 1
> No ZFS pools located, can't boot
> 
> I browsed thru the ZFS bootcode, but that is way to sophisticated for me.
> 
> So why doesn't it like to boot of the second disk?
> What did I forget to do?
> 
> Which is what I would like for this system to be able to do, in case
> of failure of the first disk.

uname -a output please.

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