gptzfsboot doesn't like change (failure after swapping drives)
George Hartzell
hartzell at alerce.com
Thu Jul 23 04:27:34 UTC 2009
Scot Hetzel writes:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM, George Hartzell<hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been playing around with building an 8.0BETA2 system with
> > everything on a single zfs filesystem (I'll get fancier later) on a
> > zpool that is a 4 disk raidz. I'm using GPT partitions and glabels so
> > that I can move the drives around w/out drama.
> >
> > Things work well, but if I swap a pair of drives then try to boot I
> > get the message that other folks have reported:
> >
> > ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable.
> > ZFS: can't read MOS
> > ZFS: unexpected object set type lld
> > ZFS: unexpected object set type lld
> >
> > Then a couple of boot: prompts.
> >
> > If I boot off of the 8.0BETA2 media I can import the pool, even with
> > the drives in different slots.
> >
> > When I put the drives back into their original slots (verified by
> > booting the USB stick and checking with glabel status) I still can't
> > boot off of them, which surprised me a bit.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest something that I might be able to do to get a
> > system in this state to boot? I've tried importing and exporting and
> > importing the pool several times.
> >
> I haven't tested this, but try the following:
>
> 1. boot the 8.0BETA install/fixit media
> 2. goto the fixit environment
> 3. Create /boot/zfs directory
> 4. load the kernel modules opensolaris.ko and zfs.ko
> 5. import the pool, and mount the root filesystem on /mnt
> 6. Copy /boot/zfs/zpool.cache to /mnt/boot/zfs
> 7. Reboot the system
I'd tried that, just did it again to be sure. Didn't help. I don't
think that the {gpt,}zfsboot code uses that file, I think that's a
kernel thing.
g.
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