ZFS doesn't mountroot: Unable to open /dev/ad4p3 for writing (error=1).

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:44:46PM +0000, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> James R. Van Artsdalen <james-freebsd-fs2 <at> jrv.org> writes:
> 
> > 
> > FreeBSD 9.0-svn207742 #0: Sat May  8 17:13:06 UTC 2010
> > root <at> clunk.housenet.jrv:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
> > 
> > I am no longer able to boot my newly-created ZFS pools in a VirtualBox
> > VM: the "Unable to open /dev/ad4p3 for writing" error shown below
> > prevents the pool from being imported even though it is found.
> > 
> > When the pool was created it was on disk ad6, but it is now booting on
> > ad4: zpool.cache contains wrong disk names so the kernel finds the pool
> > member(s) by guid, not name.
> <snip>
> 
> Same here on recent -CURRENT. I recently needed to disable ahci(4) driver (pool
> was created on ada0p3), and got the same error about ad4p3 (device name without
> ahci driver).

It should be worked around in r207936. Could you guys try it?

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