Re: ZFS Solaris: Cannot find the pool label

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On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 9:18 AM Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 1:18 AM Peter Blok <pblok@bsd4all.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a small sized NAS with an on-board LSI SAS2308 controller in IR
> mode, but with drives presented directly. Due to space constraints I’m
> booting of those drives, which host a RAID-Z pool. A known problem with the
> on-board controller is that it is getting to hot and over time it dies
> slowly with lots of controller resets. This happened before, but I had a
> spare MB.
> >
> > Over the weekend this started to happen with my last spare MB. I still
> had a PCIe version of SAS2308 and plugged that with the drives into a newer
> machine, because it doesn’t fit in the existing case.
> >
> > The boot loader is started but it stops with Solaris: Cannot find the
> boot label for zroot
> >
> > When I add an extra drive on a SATA port and install FreeBSD ( same
> version 13-stable of a couple of days ago ) I can import the pool ok and
> scrub it. No errors found, but booting stil fails the same way even when I
> physically disconnect the extra drive.
> >
> > There are differences:
> >
> > - PCIe controller runs in IT mode. Reported drive size in blocks is
> identical. Firmware is 17.0. based when the on-board had 20.0 (latest) and
> ran IR in pass-thru.
> > - hardware is different
> >
> > Before I start upgrading firmware, I would like to investigate a bit
> more. (This is my last controller and I don’t want to brick it with newer
> firmware)
> >
> > Which label is ZFS complaining about and where is it located?
> >
> > Peter
>
> At any point did you do `zpool upgrade` or `zpool set`?  Maybe you
> activated a zpool feature that is too new for the bootloader to
> understand.  You could try reinstalling the boot loader.
> -Alan
>
>

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