Errors booting of the ZFS alternative mirror disk

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 2011-01-30 15:30, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> 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.
>
FreeBSD big.medusa.nl 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #2: Sat Jan
29 22:11:44 CET 2011     wjw at big.medusa.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BIG  amd64

Haven't tested it with this version though, but only with the build I
did on 22 Jan, and then it didn't work.

--WjW