Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:46:54 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jurgen Weber <jurgen@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk Message-ID: <1256183214.2309.61.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <4ADFCFF3.1030201@ish.com.au> References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> <1256174188.2309.22.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4ADFCFF3.1030201@ish.com.au>
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On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:22 +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: > On 22/10/09 12:16 PM, Robert Noland wrote: > > Make sure that your loader has zfs support. Setting > > LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT="YES" in make.conf will take care of it. > > Does this setting just create /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptzfsboot files in /boot? We use freebsd-update as a binary update mechanism and I can see those files already exist (8.0-RC1), so perhaps it isn't needed except to compile the appropriate boot loader files? gptboot and pmbr should be there always... The LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT has to do with it requiring CDDL code and so isn't / wasn't built by default... I'm not fully aware of the details... I just know that when I setup my first amd64 box w/ zfs root it wasn't part of the normal CDs. So I built up a temporary install to bootstrap it and install the OS. robert. > Also, LOADER_ZFS_SUPPORT does not appear in the man page for make.conf. > > Once I have everything figured out, I'll write up a blog post with a set of instructions on what I've learnt. Hopefully that will help others in the future. > > Thanks > > Ari Maniatis > -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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