FreeBSD 9.0; root on ZFS; ZFS on GELI; stuck in mountroot prompt

_martin

_martin

I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my notebook. Goal is to have root on ZFS with encryption. Installation was done using CD from LiveCD.

Disk is divided as follows:

Code: 
=>      34  16777149  da0  GPT  (8.0G)
        34       128    1  freebsd-boot  (64k)
       162   2097152    2  freebsd-zfs  (1.0G)
   2097314  14679869    3  freebsd-zfs  (7G)

The small 1G partition is used for zboot - pool which I mount under /bootfs. Second one is used for GELI.

After GELI init/attach I installed FreeBSD as any other installation when one wants to have root on ZFS. /boot/loader.conf includes geom_eli_load. /boot is a symlink to /bootfs/boot, all files which are normally under /boot.

When system boots everything seems ok. But after I'm prompted for GELI passphrase system halts to mountroot prompt (rootfs not found). I can see my ".eli" provider among options to choose root from (hence GELI is attach correctly). Problem is, that the pool which contains root is not activated.

I did google around and read some issues about rcorder where /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal script is executed before /etc/rc.d/zfs. But I didn't find any solution to this.

I found some howtos here on forums, but it seems nobody bumped to this issue. :(
 
kpa said:
Is the second partition really a zfs pool or should be it of type freebsd-ufs?
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It's a zfs pool, a pool where everything else except /boot resides. When I mount an install CD and choose "cd9660:/dev/cd0 ro" I can import pools without problems (and don't need to reattach the second partition).
 
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