I have an HP DL360 with a pair of 1TB seagate disks that's been running -STABLE with a ZFS root partition set up using the tools available here: http://yds.coolrat.org/zfsboot.shtml It's been working great. As part of trying to understand what's going on, I csup'ed to -RELENG earlier today and rebuilt/installed the kernel and world whilst running on the DL360, so everything should be current. I tried to move the disks into an HP DL320 G4 and it fails to boot because it can't find /dev/mirror/boot (which it wants to mount onto /strap and then parts get nullfs'ed onto /boot and /rescue). It gives me the opportunity to start a shell, and from that shell I can do a zfs mount -a and get all of the zfs filesystems mounted, but there's nothing in /dev/mirror. No gmirror status and list are silent. I can move the disks back into the older machine and they work fine. I've run fdisk -s ad4 and bsdlabel -A /dev/ad4s1a and diffed the output from the two machines and they're identical. I've booted with kern.geom.mirror.debug=2 and the DL320G4 tastes /dev/ad4s1a (along with everything else) but doesn't do anything with it. Any ideas? g.
George Hartzell writes: > [...] > It's been working great. As part of trying to understand what's going > on, I csup'ed to -RELENG earlier today and rebuilt/installed the > kernel and world whilst running on the DL360, so everything should be > current. > [...] Just to be clear, I mean that I have an up to date version of -STABLE on the machine (it claims to be 7.1-PRERELEASE), not that I'm running -CURRENT. g.
George Hartzell writes: > > I have an HP DL360 with a pair of 1TB seagate disks that's been > running -STABLE with a ZFS root partition set up using the tools > available here: > > http://yds.coolrat.org/zfsboot.shtml > > It's been working great. As part of trying to understand what's going > on, I csup'ed to -RELENG earlier today and rebuilt/installed the > kernel and world whilst running on the DL360, so everything should be > current. > > I tried to move the disks into an HP DL320 G4 and it fails to boot > because it can't find /dev/mirror/boot (which it wants to mount onto > /strap and then parts get nullfs'ed onto /boot and /rescue). It gives > me the opportunity to start a shell, and from that shell I can do a > zfs mount -a and get all of the zfs filesystems mounted, but there's > nothing in /dev/mirror. No gmirror status and list are silent. > > I can move the disks back into the older machine and they work fine. > > I've run fdisk -s ad4 and bsdlabel -A /dev/ad4s1a and diffed the > output from the two machines and they're identical. > > I've booted with kern.geom.mirror.debug=2 and the DL320G4 tastes > /dev/ad4s1a (along with everything else) but doesn't do anything with > it. > > Any ideas? > [for the archives] Solved. gmirror had been set up with -h specifying the device, and although the newer server used the same device names for its disks (ad[46]) it assigned them to different hot swap bays. Once I switched the disks everything came up fine. g.