dhenzler
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I get the error "mounting from zfs:freenas-boot/ROOT/default fails with error 5"
I had my Xyratex HS-1235t up and running with four 4TB drives. Was running smoothly while I did some basic configuration. Then when I started uploading files to the pool, one of the drives failed. Not having read the manual, I simply removed the drive with it's hot swap caddy. Rebuilt the pool adding another drive and started uploading again. A second drive failed... I was concerned that I had some real system problems. I replaced it with yet another drive, and shortly afterwards it too failed. Total of 3 bad drives. But turned out the drives that failed were from a batch purchased from the same provider.
I rebuilt the pool once more with only two drives in simple Raid. And continued to run... successfully uploading over 500GB to the NAS. I knew I was likely to have difficulty with this situation, but didn't realize how much. I had da1 & da2 in the system, and da0 and da4 had been removed and packed for return. I knew there might be trouble after reading about removing drives from a pool... but! too late.
This morning I decided to attack the problem and have yet to be successful in restarting FreeNAS. I built a new USB stick, and pulled the drives out to see if it would start with NO drives present... no luck.
Alternate boot attempts produce "Solaris: NOTICE: Cannot find the pool label for "freenas-boot"
Is there a way around this...
My system is an IBM HS-1235T Server Xeon E5645 2.40GHz & 24GB RAM with an LSI 9201-8i controller
Somebody has to know what to do...
I had my Xyratex HS-1235t up and running with four 4TB drives. Was running smoothly while I did some basic configuration. Then when I started uploading files to the pool, one of the drives failed. Not having read the manual, I simply removed the drive with it's hot swap caddy. Rebuilt the pool adding another drive and started uploading again. A second drive failed... I was concerned that I had some real system problems. I replaced it with yet another drive, and shortly afterwards it too failed. Total of 3 bad drives. But turned out the drives that failed were from a batch purchased from the same provider.
I rebuilt the pool once more with only two drives in simple Raid. And continued to run... successfully uploading over 500GB to the NAS. I knew I was likely to have difficulty with this situation, but didn't realize how much. I had da1 & da2 in the system, and da0 and da4 had been removed and packed for return. I knew there might be trouble after reading about removing drives from a pool... but! too late.
This morning I decided to attack the problem and have yet to be successful in restarting FreeNAS. I built a new USB stick, and pulled the drives out to see if it would start with NO drives present... no luck.
Alternate boot attempts produce "Solaris: NOTICE: Cannot find the pool label for "freenas-boot"
Is there a way around this...
My system is an IBM HS-1235T Server Xeon E5645 2.40GHz & 24GB RAM with an LSI 9201-8i controller
Somebody has to know what to do...