https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209940
Bug ID: 209940 Summary: FreeBSD installer for ZFS destroys RAID and fails (and hangs) Product: Base System Version: 11.0-CURRENT Hardware: amd64 OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: standards Assignee: freebsd-standa...@freebsd.org Reporter: elof...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org CC: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Created attachment 170919 --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=170919&action=edit GEOM error in the FreeBSD installer during ZFS install In the FreeBSD 10.1 installer, I can't install FreeBSD using ZFS on a BIOS Software RAID1 volume. When the installer tries to handle the raid/r0 device (gpart, etc), it destroys the RAID and then shows an error message, and the installer fail. Therefore I downloaded the latest FreeBSD-11.0-ALPHA1-amd64-20160528-r300895-disc1.iso to see if the latest version of FreeBSD behave better. Unfortunetly it doesn't. How to reproduce: Boot a machine (in my case a Supermicro) with two harddrives. Enter BIOS setup and configure the SATA controller as a RAID controller. Reboot and press ctrl-i to enter the "Intel Software RAID" setup. Create a RAID1 volume containing the two HDDs. Boot the FreeBSD 11.0 installer, select keyboard, enter a hostname and clear all distribution packages. Now choose to install using ZFS. Under 'Pool Type/Disks:', select "stripe" and then select the RAID1 volume "raid/r0", like this: [ ] ada0 [ ] ada1 [x] raid/r0 The ZFS-installer now says "stripe: 1 disks" which is correct, so proceed with the installation. Are you sure? Yes Now the same thing happens as in 10.1: The Intel software RAID1 you just created is destroyed. On FreeBSD 11.0, nothing more happen. The installer has stopped. No error messages, no nothing. (see attachment #1: geom.jpg and #2: the debug-screen (alt-F3) of the installer) (For your information: On FreeBSD 10.1 the same thing happens (the raid is destroyed), but at least an error is generated, so one can exit the installer. On FreeBSD 11.0 the installer just hangs.) What I expected/wanted: I wanted FreeBSD 11.0 to be installed onto my soft RAID1 volume as an ordinary striped ZFS. ( I want to use a standard RAID1 of two full disks. I do not want to use ZFS mirror since this is not full disk duplication, and the recovery of a broken ZFS-mirror-disk is a much bigger hassle (manually duplicate partition structures, manually save a bootloader, manually resilver the zfs-mirror) than recovering an ordinary RAID1 disk. I want ZFS, so using UFS instead is not a workaround. ) Can this problem in the ZFS-installer please be fixed before the official FreeBSD 11.0 is released? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"