Re: SOLVED: ZFS Solaris: Cannot find the pool label

Hi Alan,

Your suggestion might be related. On all 6 drives I have boot partitions and UEFI partitions. I assumed the order in which the drives were presented was the same as with the on-board controller, but that was not the case. It used the loader.efi from a different disk in the new system. There was only one UEFI partition I apparantly did not update and that happened to be the one that was picked in the new system.

I took the UEFI partition from the freshly installed external disk and copied it on all and now the system boots.


Thanks a lot,

Peter



> On 10 Jul 2023, at 15:17, 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
>