Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-26 Thread Tyler Sweet
Well, I wasn't able to continue troubleshooting. I took the opportunity that the server was already down to upgrade the BIOS. HP kindly does not provide any checks or warnings letting you know that you need to do a stepped upgrade, so the server is bricked. *sigh*. So this likely won't get

Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-25 Thread Terje Elde
On 25. sep. 2013, at 06:59, Tyler Sweet ty...@tsweet.net wrote: I tried reinstalling the boot blocks from both the fixit live filesystem and also mounting zroot and using the files there in case they were different. Disclaimer: I haven't gotten (enough) morning-coffee yet, but... Disclaimer

Re: FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-25 Thread Tyler Sweet
Luckily, in this case, I had set a cron job long, long ago to do daily snapshots. So I have a snapshot from before the upgrade - There are indeed two different loaders. The newer one matches zfs when grepped, the older one does not... But, since it was working before, I restored the older loader

FreeBSD 8.4 Boot failure

2013-09-24 Thread Tyler Sweet
Hello all, Not sure if this is the correct list. I've run into a problem with one of my servers where it no longer boots. It uses GPT and ZFS for root. Recently, I did an upgrade from 8.2 up to 8.4. That went fine, and I rebooted a few times after that to finish installing updates. During those