May have broken my installation !

leenux_tux

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Mar 21, 2013
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Hello forum,

I have been having some issues getting my system to boot. Since it was installed a few weeks ago I have been having to manually mount rpool at boot time. I would get a message stating "Manually import the pool at the command prompt and exit" (screen dump attached).

Manuall_Mount_Pool.jpg

I wasn't too bothered about this as this is a test system. I am learning/testing Proxmox and was not planning on rebooting too often anyway, however, I stupidly decided to try and fix it hoping an update might fix the issue. Part of the update came up with messages about changes to the boot settings (GRUB) and I chose to keep the existing settings. Now trying to mount the pool manually just doesn't work. Doh !

I can reinstall, its not a problem as the VM's are stored on a FreeNAS SAN, however, I would like to understand what has happened so I don't make the same mistake again. Here is a screen shot of the error messages.

ZFS_MOUNT_FAIL.jpg

If anyone can point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
 
FIXED !!!!

A little more information on this...

From the command line (via IPMI) I can see the pool. If I do a zpool list and the pool is there, however, I get a "zpool: Symbol 'spa_feature_table' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking" message. I am reasonably OK with ZFS as I use it on FreeNAS. I have tried doing a zfs list and the file systems are there. I then just did "zfs mount" and it all went OK !!!!

Still doesn't explain why the pool is not being mounted at boot time. But that is a separate issue