Bug 212189

Summary: gptzfsboot error booting to zfsroot after installation
Product: Base System Reporter: Craig Forbes <cpforbes>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: New ---    
Severity: Affects Some People CC: doctorwhoguy, dvl, freebsd, ph4r4un
Priority: --- Keywords: regression
Version: 11.0-RC1   
Hardware: amd64   
OS: Any   
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Description Craig Forbes 2016-08-27 01:36:10 UTC 
After installing 11.0-RC1 onto a zfs root (either mirrored or a single disk stripe) I get the following errors:

gptzfsboot: error 128 lba 488281248
gptzfsboot: error 128 lba 1
gptzfsboot: error 128 lba 488281248
gptzfsboot: error 128 lba 1
gptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot

This is on a Dell T3400 with 2 250GB SATA drives.  It does not support EFI

This same machine has no problems with a zfs mirror root with 10.3.
Comment 1 Craig Forbes 2016-08-29 14:32:59 UTC 
Correction.  The machine is a Dell T5400 not T3400.
Comment 2 Dan Langille freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-12-17 19:31:17 UTC 
Created attachment 178031 [details]
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I'm having the same issue with FreeBSD 111
Comment 3 Dan Langille freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-12-17 19:33:05 UTC 
I can provide a system which is having this problem.
Comment 4 Patrick McMunn 2017-04-24 01:11:54 UTC 
I have this error also. I installed the FreeBSD 12-CURRENT snapshot from April 20, 2017. It's on an old Dell Dimension 2400.
Comment 5 Dan Langille freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-04-24 01:33:32 UTC 
I think my problem was 4K drives with a mainboard which did not support UEFI booting. 

Allan Jude may be able to confirm.
Comment 6 Dan Langille freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-04-24 01:43:30 UTC 
After discussions with Allan, I may be mistaken. 

I am not blocked by this.