Failed boot after upgrade to RC2 - zfs?
After installing RC2, booting into OS X gets hung at the grey spinning wheel (under the apple before login screen). RC1 had been running fine for a month. And, after the upgrade not working, I managed to screwup the clean bootable backup I had, so now I'm at a loss as I don't seem to have an OS X installation to boot into - though I can boot into XP.
The dual-boot disk is MBR:
. disk3s1 - NTFS XPpro boot drive
. disk3s2 - HFS+ OS X boot drive (vanilla, retail 10.5.7)
I have 4 other disks, most notably:
. disk2s1 - HFS+ superduper backup of OS X boot drive
. disk2s2 - OS X install disk
Steps:
1. installed RC2-640 via installer while running from disk3s2 to disk3s2, then manually restarted
2. greeted with RC2 GUI and hit enter on default drive (i.e., disk3s2) - after a minute got hung on grey spinning wheel; then manually restarted
3. at RC2 GUI selected bootable backup disk2s1 and successfully booted into that drive; then manually restarted
4. at RC2 GUI booted from default boot drive disk3s2 with -v [see results below]
5. at RC2 GUI booted from default boot drive disk3s2 with -v -x -f
6. at RC2 GUI booted into backup disk2s1 reinstalled Chameleon RC1 - first, inadvertently installed to disk2s1 (big mistake!); then installed to disk3s2; then manually restarted
7. NOW BOTH OS X PARTITIONS HANG WITH GREY SPINNING BALL
8. at RC2 GUI booted from disk2s2 OS X Install Disk - get hung with spinning beach ball on starfield
Here is the last few lines from booting -v from either disk3s2 and disk2s1 (from handwritten notes):
kobj_openfile: "/etc/zfs/zpool.cache", err 0
ALF ALERT: sockwall_cntl_updaterules ctl_enqueuedate rts err 55
zfs_module_start: memory footprint 4818816 (kalloc 4818816, kernel 0)
log dir: /Volumes/RAIDzfs/.fseventsd getting new uuid [some long number]
zfs_vfs_mount: error 16
sound assertion "0==fmikeydriver" failed in " /sourcecache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA_162.1.37/AppleHDADriver.cpp" at line 1053 goto handler
This is the last line in log before it hangs. When I run with -v -x -f, the zfs line is the last line.
From the log messages, my guess is it's choking on mounting ZFS. I installed ZFS (
http://zfs.macosforge.org) subsequent to installing Chameleon RC1. I created a ZFS RAID pool from 2 partitions on 2 separate disks (disk2 & disk4) and use it for data only, not booting. It worked perfectly fine prior to installing RC2, RC1 didn't have any problems with it. But, since (inadvertently) reinstalling RC1 on the backup drive disk2s1 resulted in that drive becoming unbootable - after previously booting post RC2 - doesn't it seem that having the ZFS RAID drive mounted at the time of Chamelon install might have caused the issue I'm having somehow?
At this point, every OS X bootable drive hangs on me. I can boot into XP and can access the OS X install (disk2s2) via MacDrive, but can't access the boot drives disk3s2 and disk2s2 - "E:\ not accessible, the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable." I'd love to try to boot OS X and somehow skip over the ZFS part, but don't know how to do that.
I appreciate any help you can give.