On Dec 23, 2012, at 16:56 , Chris Ross <cross+free...@distal.com> wrote:
> I had brought up a machine months ago with freebsd-9-stable. I configured it
> to boot off of a single disk, with ZFS, expecting I would likely later attach
> the other disk to the zpool. I tried to do that today, but find that I can't
> write the bootloader to either disk.
>
> gpart: /dev/da0a: Operation not permitted
>
> [...]
Okay. It occurred to me today what was likely the problem. I was running,
even when single user, off of the zfs pool on the disks I was trying to write
the bootloader to.
I tar'd up /boot after my recent install from a Dec 22 9-stable, and moved it
off-host. Then, I booted off of the July stable-9 CD-ROM I have in the
machine, and was able to write bootblocks (with gpart bootcode) and a
bootloader (dd if=/boot/zfsloader of=/dev/${disk}a bs=512 oseek=1024
conv=notrunc).
Now, the new problem. When I try to boot my sparc64 with these bits, I see:
>> FreeBSD/sparc64 ZFS boot block
Boot path: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a
Consoles: Open Firmware console
ERROR: Last Trap: Division by Zero
{1} ok
So, does anyone know if something has gone unstable in the sparc64 zfsboot in
recent months? If I boot from the cdrom again and load the July zfsboot via
gpart bootcode, it boots correctly again.
Thanks. Any feedback appreciated.
- Chris
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