Re: Busted FreeBSD VM ZFS can't find boot block

AFAICT, yes. Windows itself boots just fine, and I'm running all of my
normal Windows applications without problem.

chkdsk reveals no problems.

Kurt


On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 12:12 PM Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 31/10/2021 14:45, Kurt Buff wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I'm running a FreeBSD 12.2 VM in VMware Workstation Pro under Windows.
> >
> > My Windows machine froze, and I couldn't recover except with a hard power
> > off.
> >
> > The FreeBSD VM is now complaining, emitting the following lines:
> >
> >     ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable
> >     ZFS: can't read MOS object directory
> >     ZFS: can't find root filesystem
> >     gptzfsboot: failed to mount default pool zroot
> >
> >     FreeBSD/x86 boot
> >     ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable
> >     ZFS: can't find dataset u
> >     Default: zroot/<0x0>:
> >     boot:
> >
> > I've done a fair amount of STFW, but I'm not seeing how to recover from
> > this - most of the entries I've found are about performing upgrades of
> > various sorts..
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a doco that can help me recover?
> >
> > I have booted the VM from the bootonly livecd option, but am at a loss as
> > to how to proceed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kurt
> First: are you certain that the underlying storage and file system are
> still OK, at the Windows level?
>
>