Zpool doesn't boot anymore after FreeBSD 12.1

Wed Oct 21 20:24:19 UTC 2020

Walter,

Yes, gpt/disk0 is da0. I can do the partition backup booting from livecd.
But is there a way to make the partition of da1 and da2 since both are
already inserted on pool? I think it's not allowed...

Thanks.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:18 PM Walter Cramer <wfc at mintsol.com> wrote:

> My guess - there is a work-around or two, but you'll face a lot more
> grief, long-term, if you don't do things the right way (aka do a bunch of
> re-install work) now.
>
> I'd start with 'gpart backup da0' (guessing that gpt/disk0 is on da0), to
> see how the original disk is partitioned.  Then duplicate that
> partitioning on da1 and da2.
>
> -Walter
>
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Cassiano Peixoto wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> Thank your for your answer.
>
> @Ricchard First of all I didn't have a chance to run zpool upgrade, because
> after the system update reboot i ran into the issue.
>
> @Walter and @mike Regarding making a partition, I never see any
> recommendation about this, I've been always using the entire disk on a pool
> to expand it. Until FreeBSD 11.2 it worked fine.
>
> Is there a workaround for this or should I reinstall the entire pool?
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:45 PM mike tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
>
> > Just a guess, Is your VM still trying to boot from whatever gpt/disk0 is
> > ? Or is it perhaps trying to boot from da1 or da2 which does not have
> > boot info ?  Generally its not recommended to use the entire disk as
> > part of a pool. Create a partition scheme first
> >
> > gpart create -s gpt da1
> >
> > gpart add -t freebsd-zfs da1
> >
> > then add da1p1 to the pool
> >
> >     ---Mike
> >
> >
> > On 10/21/2020 8:20 AM, Cassiano Peixoto wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Anyone can help please? I've many servers with this same issue. Thanks
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:24 AM Cassiano Peixoto <
> > peixotocassiano at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi there,
> > >>
> > >> I have a FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE running on VMWARE with one disk. Then I
> > added two more disks to expand my pool. BTW I already did it many time
> with
> > no issues.
> > >>
> > >> I ran:
> > >>
> > >> # zpool status
> > >>   pool: zroot
> > >>  state: ONLINE
> > >> status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool
> > can
> > >>      still be used, but some features are unavailable.
> > >> action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
> > >>      the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not
> > support
> > >>      the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
> > >>   scan: none requested
> > >> config:
> > >>
> > >>      NAME         STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
> > >>      zroot        ONLINE       0     0     0
> > >>        gpt/disk0  ONLINE       0     0     0
> > >>
> > >> errors: No known data errors
> > >>
> > >> # zpool add -f zroot da1
> > >> # zpool add -f zroot da2
> > >> # zpool status
> > >>   pool: zroot
> > >>  state: ONLINE
> > >>   scan: none requested
> > >> config:
> > >>
> > >>      NAME         STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
> > >>      zroot        ONLINE       0     0     0
> > >>        gpt/disk0  ONLINE       0     0     0
> > >>        da1        ONLINE       0     0     0
> > >>        da2        ONLINE       0     0     0
> > >>
> > >> errors: No known data errors
> > >> # reboot
> > >>
> > >> Then my system doesn’t boot anymore, i got the following error:
> > >>
> > >> gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 2038346899
> > >> gptzfsboot: error 4 lba 1361327267
> > >> /boot/config: -Dh
> > >>
> > >> BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.02
> > >> Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port
> > >> BIOS drive A: is fd0
> > >> BIOS drive C: is disk0
> > >> BIOS drive D: is disk1
> > >> BIOS drive E: is disk2
> > >> BIOS drive F: is disk3
> > >> BIOS drive G: is disk4
> > >> BIOS drive H: is disk5
> > >> ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable
> > >> ZFS: failed to read pool zroot directory object
> > >> BIOS 638kB/3143616kB available memory
> > >>
> > >> FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> > >> ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: invalid argument.
> > >>
> > >> Type '?' for list of commands, 'help' for more datailed help.
> > >> OK
> > >>
> > >> I can import my pool with no problems using the lived, but I could not
> > fix it.
> > >>
> > >> Seems a bug after 12.1-STABLE. Please, anyone can take a look ok that?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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