On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 03:49-0400, J David wrote:
> In order to test ZFS on the upcoming 9.2 release, we upgraded a
> non-production 8.4 root-on-ZFS fileserver to 9.2-BETA2.
>
> The result was a non-bootable system. The first problem was
> gptzfsboot, but that was our fault? it never got upgraded when we
> switched to feature flags. So some time with the 8.4 live CD (the 9.x
> CD's do not boot on this system -- kern/162160 ) solved that.
>
> But the system still wouldn't boot, moving on to:
>
> ZFS: can't find pool by guid
> ZFS: can't find pool by guid
>
> We got around this by interrupting the stage1 loader and invoking
> data/root:/boot/zfsloader.old instead. Then we moved the 9.2
> zfsloader out of the way and restored the 8.4 loader.
>
> So this system only boots with the 9.2 gptzfsboot and the 8.4 zfsloader.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, there is nothing broken or out of date
> with this zpool:
>
> $ zpool status
> pool: data
> state: ONLINE
> scan: resilvered 451G in 70h36m with 0 errors on Fri Feb 17 00:26:19 2012
> config:
>
> NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
> data ONLINE 0 0 0
> raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
> da2p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> da3p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> da4p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> da5p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> da6p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> da7p1 ONLINE 0 0 0
> logs
> gpt/slog0 ONLINE 0 0 0
> cache
> gpt/cache1 ONLINE 0 0 0
>
> errors: No known data errors
> $ zpool upgrade
> This system supports ZFS pool feature flags.
>
> All pools are formatted using feature flags.
>
> Every feature flags pool has all supported features enabled.
>
>
> Does anyone know why the 9.2 zfsloader won't load it?
>
> Thanks!
I'm curious as to why you use da?p1 as the freebsd-zfs partitions.
Where does the freebsd-boot partition reside? da?p2?
What does the "gpart show" command tell you?
I normally use *p1 for freebsd-boot, *p2 for freebsd-swap and *p3 for
freebsd-swap. I know some people who put freebsd-zfs on *p2 and
freebsd-swap on *p3. Maybe the partitions are interchangeable after
all.
As a general rule, I think it's wise to always update the boot blocks
whenever you plan to upgrade the pool format or the filesystems.
If I have the time later this afternoon, or maybe tomorrow, I will
attempt the following on a couple of VMs:
1. Install 8.4-RELEASE with ZFS SPA v28.
2. Upgrade ZFS SPA to v5000. Updating the boot blocks shouldn't be
necessary this time.
3. Upgrade by source to 8.4-STABLE and see what happens then.
4. Upgrade by source to 9.2-BETA2, and possibly update the boot blocks
using the installed files prior to rebooting, and see what
happens then.
A second attempt would involve going straight from 8.4-RELEASE to
9.2-BETA2.
I'll let you know how well I fared.
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