solved: failure to create zfs storage pool
Darrel
levitch at iglou.com
Sun Jun 5 11:36:18 UTC 2011
>
>
> well you have 2x disks dont you. Break the mirrors and then you have a free
> drive. Setup the pool how you want on this then rsync all your os build over
> onto it. Make any zfs root tweaks you want then boot onto the drive.
>
> If all is good then copy across the partition table from the zfs drive to
> the new one (gpart backup/restore) and attach the relevent slice/partition
> to pool. Finally put the boot blocks onto the drive, job done no work lost
>
Seems like I crashed all of it along with the mirrors. This worked,
though:
- boot from FreeBSD82 digital versatile disk; \
e.g., FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso
- select 6 at loader menu
load ahci
load zfs
boot
- fixit > dvd
gpart destroy -F ad4
gpart destroy -F ad6
gpart create -s gpt ad4
gpart add -s 64K -t freebsd-boot ad4
gpart add -s 5G -t freebsd-swap ad4
gpart add -t freebsd-zfs ad4
gpart bootcode -b /dist/boot/pmbr -p /dist/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad4
gpart add -s 64K -t freebsd-boot ad6
gpart add -s 5G -t freebsd-swap ad6
gpart add -t freebsd-zfs ad6
gpart bootcode -b /dist/boot/pmbr -p /dist/boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad6
gpart show
mkdir /boot/zfs
zpool create pool0 mirror ad4p3 ad6p3
zpool status -v pool0
zfs set mountpoint=none pool0
zfs create pool0/ROOT
zfs create -o mountpount=/mnt pool0/ROOT/freebsd
zfs create pool0/ROOT/freebsd/tmp
zfs create pool0/ROOT/freebsd/var
zfs create pool0/ROOT/freebsd/usr
zfs create -o mountpoint=/home pool0/HOME
export DESTDIR=/mnt
cd /dist/8.2-RELEASE
for dir in base catpages dict doc info lib32 manpages; \
do (cd $dir; ./install.sh); done
cd kernels
./install.sh GENERIC
cd ../src
./install.sh all
cd /mnt/boot
cp -Rpv GENERIC/* kernel/
vi /mnt/boot/loader.conf
!--
ahci_load="YES"
zfs_load="YES"
vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:pool0/ROOT/freebsd"
vi /mnt/etc/rc.conf
!--
zfs_enable="YES"
vi /mnt/etc/fstab
!--
/dev/ad4p2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad6p2 none swap sw 0 0
cp /boot/zfs/zpool.cache /mnt/boot/zfs/zpool.cache
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/dist/lib
cd /
zfs umount -a
zfs set mountpoint=legacy pool0/ROOT/freebsd
zfs set mountpoint=/tmp pool0/ROOT/freebsd/tmp
zfs set mountpoint=/usr pool0/ROOT/freebsd/usr
zfs set mountpoint=/var pool0/ROOT/freebsd/var
zfs set mountpoint=/home pool0/HOME
zpool set bootfs=pool0/ROOT/freebsd pool0
exit
- remove the dvd
exit
exit
yes
Darrel
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