When attempting to install 11.1 Release on a ZFS mirror using the guided ZFS on root installer:
The installer failed because of error message "alignment parameter error".
Using the alt-f3 and alt-f4 consoles I found out that the installer calls
For some reason I do not understand this works for "da0" (Seagate ST3600057SS 0006) but not for "da1" (Hitachi DKR2J-K600SS D02G).
When I manually enter the failed commands using full numbers (e.g. 4096 instead of 4k) gpart works fine on "da1" without complaints.
Is my Hitachi HDD maybe defective, or is it a bug of the installer or gpart?
Edit/Update:
I found /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot:
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There is more problem regarding the variable swapsize but one can avoid that when installing without swap i guess.
Edit/Update #2
Physically swapped da0 and da1. Attempted to stripe install onto da0, which fails now because of these damn parameter error.
So I guess it is a problem with gpart. It seems not to accept the size shortcuts (k, m, g, b, ...) on Hitachi SAS drives. With these drives only full-written numbers seem to work.
The installer failed because of error message "alignment parameter error".
Using the alt-f3 and alt-f4 consoles I found out that the installer calls
gpart using "-a 4k" and "-s 512k" (for the boot partition).For some reason I do not understand this works for "da0" (Seagate ST3600057SS 0006) but not for "da1" (Hitachi DKR2J-K600SS D02G).
When I manually enter the failed commands using full numbers (e.g. 4096 instead of 4k) gpart works fine on "da1" without complaints.
Is my Hitachi HDD maybe defective, or is it a bug of the installer or gpart?
Edit/Update:
I found /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot:
Code:
align_small="-a 4k"
Code:
4k
Code:
4096
Code:
align_big="-a 1m"
Code:
1m
Code:
1048576There is more problem regarding the variable swapsize but one can avoid that when installing without swap i guess.
Edit/Update #2
Physically swapped da0 and da1. Attempted to stripe install onto da0, which fails now because of these damn parameter error.
So I guess it is a problem with gpart. It seems not to accept the size shortcuts (k, m, g, b, ...) on Hitachi SAS drives. With these drives only full-written numbers seem to work.