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mabra

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From: Brühl

Registered: 2015-10-05

Posts: 22

ZFS (on boot) fails to boot

Hello !

I run to setup zfs on boot, after I made it in a VM. But this fails to boot (brings up emergency shell, which tells: 'root device mount success, but: /sbin/init does not exist'). If I continue, it tells me not beeing able to mount the '' (empty string) pool.
One reason may be, that I do not understand grub and pathes.
I say this, because my pool is like this:

syspool             none
syspool/base        none
syspool/base/grid-1 /mnt
syspool/etc         /mnt/etc
syspool/home        /mnt/home
syspool/root        /mnt/root
syspool/var         /mnt/var
syspool/var/cache   /mnt/var/cache
syspool/var/log     /mnt/var/log

I made it this way on my running debian, so I could have another system on the same pool.

I tried to modify grub:

from:    syspool
to:        syspool/base/grid-1

at any given playes, without success.

It might be, the problem is at another place.

I booted archiso, installed ZFS and imported the pool to /mnt.
I made this a second time, but this time, I get a lot of mount errors.

ZFS claims to not beeing able to mount '/mnt/etc' because it exists.
So I mounted it at another place, just to see, it is empty and there
is an directory "etc" in the zfs-root, although the pool's etc is not
mounted.

If this raises to one or other idea, I would like to hear it !

Thanks anyway,

Manfred