Getting ZFS pools back.

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 2-5-2018 11:47, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 30/04/2018 13:37, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>> So now I'm inclined to point at older hardware with an old bios, which confused
>> ZFS, or probably more precisely gptzfsboot.
> 
> I think that this alone wouldn't explain the problems you had with zpool import.
> Maybe you had multiple issues at the same time.
> - something with BIOS caused trouble with booting
> - something else, e.g. kernel-userland mismatch, caused zpool commands to misbehave

More than likely you are right.
Frustrating was, how ever, that most trouble I run into, I can fix. 
Doing FreeBSD for so long, makes that I don't easily give up.
But after 4 hours of fiddling with bootsectors, loaders, setting and 
what not, I gave up. Also because I did not want to jeopardize the data.
(It is on backup, but the backup was already 8 hours stale)

But hey, system is backup. And haven't heart anybody complaining about 
missing data, of other failures....

--WjW