zfs discuss - Sep 2008 - virtualbox & opensolaris b95 - zfs issue

Hello zfs-discuss,

      I installed Open Solaris 2008.05 on my notebook then I
      upgraded it to b95 (following required procedure). Everything
      worked fine.

      So now I booted into Windows, installed virtual box and wanted
      it to boot OS from physical partition.

      So I created vmdk representing entire disk and another one
      representing just that one partition.

      I can boot it into GRUB then I try to boot opensolaris and it
      load kernel fine but then zfs is complaining it can''t mount
      rootfs. So I mounted OS livecd image, booted from it with vmdk
      representing the partition also presented, I was able to import
      rpool without any issues and I did devfsadm -Cv inside it.

      So now again, I''m trying to boot from disk and I''m
getting on a
      console (I did booted it with kmdb in order to be able to
      intercept the message):

      [...]
      NOTICE: zfs_parse_bootfs: error 19

      panic[cpu0]/thread=fec1cfe0: cannot mount root path /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at
1,1/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0:a

      fec351ac genunix:rootconf +10b (c0f040, 1, fec1c750)
      fec351d0 genunix:vfs_mountroot+54 (fe800010, fec30fd8)
      fec351e4 genunix:main+b9 ()

      [...]

      I guess error 19 will be ENODEV coming from spa_vdev_attach.
      The rootpath it is trying to use seems fine (compared with the
      one I get if I boot it from livecd with a disk still presented).
      
      From kmdb:

      ::spa
      d3ccb200 IOFAILURE rpool

      ::spa -c
      [phys_path is wrong but I''m not sure if it matters - what -c
      actually does?]


      
      If I boot from livecd in above config I''m able to import rpool
      so looks like virtualbox does properly present disk to system.

      Any ideas?
      


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