Solved Can't boot restored server

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xy16644

I am currently running FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0 r267210 and I am using GELI encryption with ZFS. My boot directory is on an unencrypted USB drive.

I have the need to "move" my installation of FreeBSD from an old server to the new. I have done this many times before but for some reason when I boot up the restored server for the first time I get
Code: 
Mounting from zfs:zroot failed with error 45
Why is this?

I did encounter a couple of issues before beginning the restore. Since my 10.0-STABLE install is fairly up to date I couldn't restore the server using a FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE bootable USB key as my ZFS pools are too up to date for them to work correctly. So I used the FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE bootable image and that worked fine in recognising my ZFS pools.

How can I get my newly restored server to boot up correctly? What is error 45?

Thanks!
 
Man, I am really battling with this! Is it possible to use the FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE bootable memstick image to restore a 10.0-STABLE system? I'm using the latest version (or almost the latest version) of ZFS so I can't use the 10.0-RELEASE bootable memstick image. Is this what could be causing the error 45 message? How do I get this restored server to boot up?

I can't believe this isn't working as I have done this dozens of times (just not recently since updating my ZFS pools)!
 
I managed to get my restored server to boot. What I did was downloaded the kernel.txz file and unzipped it onto my USB bootdir. After doing this I could boot up fine again. I think this happened because I created my zroot pool with a 10.1 installer but the bootdir was running 10.0. Hope this helps someone!

Out of curiousity, what media should I use when restoring a STABLE server that has the latest ZFS pool version?
 
xy16644 said:
I managed to get my restored server to boot. What I did was downloaded the kernel.txz file and unzipped it onto my USB bootdir. After doing this I could boot up fine again. I think this happened because I created my zroot pool with a 10.1 installer but the bootdir was running 10.0. Hope this helps someone!

Out of curiousity, what media should I use when restoring a STABLE server that has the latest ZFS pool version?
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There are snapshots available for 10-STABLE, among the files are CD and USB memory stick images:

http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/
 
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