Hi:
Last time, Devin had been very kind to suggest me when the system
borked while trying to upgrade from v10B3 to vRC1.
Following FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE, I installed to a new machine with
encrypted root in zfs mirror, and since there was something wrong (a
double quote by mistake) inserted in the /boot/device.hints, the
kernel refused to boot and landed to the mountroot prompt.
Therefore, in order to make changes what I did was:
1. Boot into LiveCD mode
2. mkdir /tmp/bootpool
zpool import -f bootpool
zfs set mountpoint=/tmp/bootpool bootpool
zfs mount -a
cp /tmp/bootpool/boot/encryption.key /tmp/
zfs umount -a
zfs set mountpoint=/bootpool bootpool
zpool export bootpool
geli attach -k /tmp/encryption.key /dev/ada0p4
geli attach -k /tmp/encryption.key /dev/ada1p4
zpool import -R /mnt zroot
zpool import -R /mnt/bootpool bootpool
3. Removed the double quote (") from /bootpool/boot/device.hints and
saved the file.
4. Rebooted the file and now it says that there is no boot/zfsbootloader.
Appreciate if someone provides hints to recover the system in such
situation without loosing any customized kernel and poudriere configs
and contents? Thanks.
/z