root-on-ZFS - gptzfsboot fails to find pool

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-08-20 13:29, Elliot Robinson wrote:
> G'day all,
> A fresh root-on-ZFS install using bsdinstall's ZFS option on FreeBSD 10
> fails to boot on my Dell Studio XPS 1640. Output at boot is
> 
> gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 48
> gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 1
> gptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot
> 
> Things I've tried:
>   * ZFS with GPT - Fails with error above
>   * ZFS with MBR - Fails with no output (doesn't find 2nd stage?)
>   * UFS with GPT - Works
>   * Different HDD/SDD - No change, fails with error above
>   * USB thumb drive on VirtualBox with ZFS/GPT - Works
> 
> This system has not had FreeBSD on it before, though the guided
> partitioning UFS/GPT install seems to work as expected.
> 
> I'm about at the point where I have to sprinkle printf's all through
> zfsboot.c and trace what's going on, so any help is appreciated.
> 
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> Elliot Robinson
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Boot off of the install cd again, and drop to a shell

zpool import

what does it say?

-- 
Allan Jude

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