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

[Andriy Gapon]

on 25/02/2010 19:58 Chris said the following:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 10:12:25 pm Chris wrote:
>>> So it sounds like somehow my system is trying to use the old boot2
>>> method when I don't hit F12. I'm guessing the difference is due to how
>>> the hard drive is getting presented to the boot loader by the BIOS.
>>> How can I get rid of the legacy boot system and use only the ZFS
>>> bootloader?
>> Does F12 enable PXE booting or some such?
> 
> The only options I have when I press F12 are to either boot from my
> hard drive or to boot from my optical drive. Is there
> any way to more verbosely see what is happening at the bootloader level?

I guess that F12 that you describe is handled by BIOS.
Do you have other HDDs in this system?
What is your default boot order (configured in BIOS)?


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Andriy Gapon