freebsd-current

Thomas Backman wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2009, at 05:37 AM, Jonathan wrote:
>
> > I've tried so many things today I don't even remember them all but I 
> > will try to make the list as complete as I can.
> >
> > I recently purchased a new server with 3 450GB SAS drives on an mfi 
> > controller and 2 Xeon 5550 processors.  I'm trying to install FreeBSD 
> > current with a ZFS RAIDZ pool booting from GPT.
> >
> > I have a USB drive booting ZFS based on the 200905 current snapshot.  
> > I downloaded the latest svn source and built it.  
> > LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT=YES was set for the build.
> >
> > Once the build was complete I did the following to create and 
> > populate the pool on the 3 SAS drives while booted from the USB drive:
> >
> > gpart create -s GPT mfid[0-2]
> > gpart show mfid0 # to get sector count
> > gpart add -b 34 -s 128 -t freebsd-boot mfid[0-2]
> > gpart add -b 162 -s 876,951,323 -t freebsd-zfs mfid[0-2]
> >
> > gpart bootcode -b /usr/obj/amd64/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/pmbr/pmbr -p 
> > /usr/obj/amd64/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/gptzfsboot/gptzfsboot -i 1 
> > mfid[0-2]
> >
> > zpool create serenity raidz /dev/mfid[0-2]p2
> >
> > make installworld TARGET=amd64 DESTDIR=/serenity
> > make installkernel TARGET=amd64 DESTDIR=/serenity
> > mergemaster -D /serenity/etc/ -i
> >
> > created an empty fstab
> > copied /boot/zfs/zpool.cache to the new pool
> >
> > I did not export the pool as some searching showed that this will 
> > cause the boot to fail.
> >
> > I currently seem to be having 2 issues.  One is that I get several 
> > screenfulls of "error 1 lba xxx" with numbers like 4292179434 and 
> > 4292179446.  Similar errors were reported here 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2008-December/005511.html but 
> > I did not find anything in that thread that worked for me.  The error 
> > message itself comes from here 
> > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/boot/i386/gptboot/gptboot.c?revision=181436&view=markup 
> >
> >
> > The loader then proceeds to load the kernel, opensolaris, and zfs 
> > modules.  Right before the displaying the loader menu it shows the 
> > message "ZFS: i/o error - all block copies unavailable" which comes 
> > from here 
> > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/boot/zfs/zfsimpl.c?revision=192194&view=markup 
> >
> >
> > If I continue from the loader screen the kernel loads and initializes 
> > and fails with
> > "Trying to mount root from zfs:serenity
> > ROOT MOUNT ERROR:
> > If you have invalid"...
> >
> > "Loader variables:
> > vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:serenity
> > zfs.root.mountfrom.options="
> >
> > At this point I can't do anything because the USB keyboard does not 
> > respond and the system has no PS/2 ports.
> >
> > I'd love to get this working and any help is much appreciated.  I 
> > still have the USB drive booting the 200905 snapshot and the livefs 
> > DVD snapshot available.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan
> >
> > P.S. if someone wants to do some testing on a 16 core machine with 
> > 6GB of RAM please let me know.  I have a week or so to play with the 
> > machine.
> I have the same problem with the LBA stuff etc: 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-May/007450.html
> I was using the current sources at the date I posted though, and not 
> the older snapshot (which, at least at the time, didn't have RAIDZ 
> boot support).
>
> I never got to mounting any root FS, though, it never let me load the 
> kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> PS. Nice pool name. ;)
> _______________________________________________

As bad as it sounds, YAY, im not the only one...
If only I had seen this thread earlier - As of 1 hours ago im the new 
owner of another 500Gb drive. I had already checked the SMART data on 
the drives and it showed everything was good, but decided some new 
drivers (getting one at a time) would help me eliminate the drives as 
being the source of the LBA errors.

Interesting though, my LBA errors are also around the 429xxxxxxx number, 
usually with the 3rd of 4th number being somewhere around 8xxx.
After rebuilding and populating the pack many many times with various 
versions of 8 I did manage to get a pack that would try and boot the 
kernel with out any LBA or IO errors but I had forgotten to add the 
zpool.cache file. I rebooted on a working drive/installation, pushed the 
zpool.cache file across and tried booting off raidz hoping that all 
would be good and happy, but no, the LBA errors started appearing...

About 3 weeks ago, I would sometimes get the IO errors, but no LBA 
errors. Even then, I had no success at getting a bootable system  as I 
was getting the following error

"Trying to mount root from zfs:zfsboot/root
ROOT MOUNT ERROR: "


I have a few more things to try later on and will report back to the group

Paul




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