ZFS boot fails with two pools

[Aldis Berjoza]

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:19:50 +0300
Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr at gmail.com> wrote:


> >
> >> You can boot from any of the drives and as long as the BIOS can see
> >> enough drives you should be able to boot.
> >
> > In my case, the BIOS certainly can not see all members of the
> > raid-z pool. The question is: why does it want to boot from raid-z
> > at all, and how could it be persuaded to use the mirrored pool
> > instead?
> 
> Actuall I think that code on that stages just tries to boot from the 
> pool on the current disk.
> 

Does your /boot/loader.conf have:

vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:tank/root"
zfs_load="YES"

Does FreeBSD bootloader actually starts to load? (Do you get to FreeBSD
boot menu?)

Does your system pool use compression? Which compression?

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