can not boot from RAIDZ with 8-STABLE

[Artem Belevich]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> Thank you guys, you are right. The BIOS provides only 1 disk to the loader!
> I checked it from loader prompt by lsdev (booted from USB external HDD).
>
> So I will try to make a small zpool mirror for root and boot (if ZFS mirror
> can be made of 4 providers instead of two) and the rest will be in RAIDZ.
>
> If that fails, I will go my old way with internal USB flash disk with UFS
> for booting and RAIDZ of 4 disks for storage as I did it few years ago with
> 7.0 or 7.1.

You seem to be booting from disks attached to some sort of add-on
card. Sometimes those have per-disk 'bootable' option in their own
extension ROM. You may investigate yours. Perhaps all you need to do
is just tweak controller settings.

--Artem