once you have it all working and understood have a look at the following port ''usr/ports/sysutils/beadm'' It may make things a little easier to manage in the future. In my experience BE's on zfs rock.
On 9 September 2013 02:02, J David <j.david.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > After setting up a new machine to boot from a ZFS root using the 9.1 > install, it worked fine, but when the kernel & world was updated to > releng/9.2, it stopped booting. The pool is called "data" and the > root partition is "data/root." > > Under 9.1 it had in loader.conf: > > zfs_load="YES" > vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:data/root" > > Under 9.2-RC3, the same config results in a panic: > > Trying to mount root from zfs:data/root []… > init: not found in path > /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/rescue/init:/stand/sysinstall > panic: no init > > If this is changed (as many Google hits recommend) to: > > zfs_enable="YES" > vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:data/root" > > It seems like ZFS doesn't get loaded, so it fails instead with: > > Trying to mount root from zfs:data/root []… > Mounting from zfs:data/root failed with error 2: unknown file system. > > If the "?" mountroot> option is used, 50 devices are listed, none of > which are ZFS. And the "unknown file system" response comes from > vfs_byname returning NULL for zfs. > > (If both zfs_enable and zfs_load are set to "YES" then it fails as the > zfs_load case.) > > The system is using update-to-date zpool (v5000 / feature flags), and > all the updated bootblocks from the releng/9.2 build. zpool.cache is > correct, the zpool imports fine from the 9.2-RC3 live cd. The zpool's > bootfs is set correctly, the zfs mountpoint of data/root is / . And, > of course, init is present and health in data/root. The system booted > fine until updating to 9.2. > > Which loader.conf entry is actually correct for ZFS roots on 9.2, and > what (else) needs to happen to make this system bootable again? > > Thanks for any advice! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ 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"
