On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Xin LI <delp...@delphij.net> wrote: > On 2010/01/27 11:18, Paul Mather wrote:
>> I have a FreeBSD guest running under VirtualBox 3.1.2 on Mac OS X. It's >> running a recent 8-STABLE and is a ZFS-only install booting via gptzfsboot. >> I use this VirtualBox guest as a test install. >> A day or so ago I noticed "zpool status" report that my pool could be >> upgraded from v13 to v14. I did this, via "zfs upgrade -a". >> Today, when attempting to fire up this FreeBSD guest in VirtualBox I get >> this on the console: >> ZFS: unsupported ZFS version 14 (should be 13) >> No ZFS pools located, can't boot > There is no on-disk format change that affects ZFS boot itself, but you > will need to install new gptzfsboot. If you have another system and > have the file, you can do it by booting from the LiveFS Disc, fetch it > from network, and use gpart to install it. Since this is so fatal, you might want to give them the option to continue here. I suspect that zpool format changes that truly break the boot loader (which is read-only at any rate) are uncommon where the chances of ending up in this situation (with an unbootable machine) are much more common. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"