On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 07:35:57PM -0500, Chris Ross wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Please see
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2012/freebsd-sparc64/20121223.freebsd-sparc64
and provide debug information.
Marius
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