Re: System fails to boot with zfs root on nvme mirror when not using full disks

2017-10-23 Thread Markus Wild
I have found the problem... I seem to be a victim of https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221075 I wasn't able to get the system to boot just by using /dev/nvd0p3 and /dev/nvd1p3 (avoiding labels), but I did succeed with a custom kernel as per the PR: include GENERIC ident NOMMC

Re: System fails to boot with zfs root on nvme mirror when not using full disks

2017-10-22 Thread Markus Wild
Hello Gary thanks for your input! > My suspicion is that you didn't make a backup of the new > /boot/zfs/zpool.cache > > From the USB live booted system, when you recreated the zpool you > likely changed parameters that live in the cache. You need to copy > that to the new boot pool or ZFS can

Re: System fails to boot with zfs root on nvme mirror when not using full disks

2017-10-20 Thread Gary Palmer
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 05:13:45PM +0200, Markus Wild wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a particularly odd problem, where I can't figure out what's going on, > or whether I'm possibly doing something > stupid... > > Short summary: > - Supermicro X10DRI-T motherboard, using UEFI boot, 128G RAM, 2

System fails to boot with zfs root on nvme mirror when not using full disks

2017-10-20 Thread Markus Wild
Hello list, I have a particularly odd problem, where I can't figure out what's going on, or whether I'm possibly doing something stupid... Short summary: - Supermicro X10DRI-T motherboard, using UEFI boot, 128G RAM, 2 CPUs - 2 Intel DC P3700 NVME cards, to be used as mirrored zfs root and