[SOLVED] Adding USB Boot Mirror: nothing happens

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HomeBoy38

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I have a freenas-boot / stripe / da6p2 boot device (usb stick) working correctly.
I have inserted a new USB device "da5" correctly detected (note: I tried all USB ports of my computer).

Code:
glabel status returns (I removed other disks):
gptid/a0daaf02-7e84-11e6-a889-78e3b5ce431f	 N/A  da6p1																		   
gptid/a0e11c7e-7e84-11e6-a889-78e3b5ce431f	 N/A  da6p2																		   
gptid/3fc20d90-ecd5-11e8-adeb-00232431860d	 N/A  da5p1																		   
gptid/3fff812e-ecd5-11e8-adeb-00232431860d	 N/A  da5p2


Using the GUI, I click the Attach button, choose my da5 disk, check the use full disk option, validate and after a few second, the GUI says that everything went fine but my disk is not attached.

I tried the command line version:
Code:
zpool attach freenas-boot gptid/a0e11c7e-7e84-11e6-a889-78e3b5ce431f gptid/a8338bbf-ecbe-11e8-8a2a-00232431860d

The disk is attached, the mirror is created, the resilvering is done (this is why my glabel status displays the p1 and p2 partitions now in the above command), I also issued the following command as advised:
Code:
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da5

but, when I reboot the machine, it tries to boot on da5 by default and I have a message like "non system disk"

I detached the disk and reattached it (I saw this elsewhere) using the GUI, but the operation is still successfull without doing anything.

Nothing written in /var/log/messages

I am using 11.1U6, I have done the exact same operation on 2 other machines without any trouble, one of them is the same hardware.

I have so 2 issues:
- the GUI does not react as expected
- the command line works except for the boot (maybe I am just missing something)

Thanks for your help
 

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You did that in the CLI?
 

HomeBoy38

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yes, as I failed to use the GUI, I fall back to CLI, but I faced the no boot issue even after I tried to generate the boot code on my usb stick
 

HomeBoy38

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I have upgraded to 11.2 STABLE and now, I was able to mirror my boot key successfully (more or less : the server reboot itself at the end of the silvering, a lot of errors displaying at boot time without finishing boot, I restarted it and all the configuration was lost, I restarted again and this time, everything is working)
So far, the new GUI is not able to display the statistics of my hard disks and the interface is in English despite of my settings, but I can work with it until a new release.

So this thread can be closed, solution is upgrade to 11.2 STABLE
 
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