Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:04:31 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> Cc: Mailinglists FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ok How do I boot this monster? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1611171651020.67199@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <575baf45-b23d-163f-79b0-213a6ba51c91@columbus.rr.com> References: <07218d20-34a5-171b-f6a8-de3c271733cc@columbus.rr.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1611171215010.67199@wonkity.com> <575baf45-b23d-163f-79b0-213a6ba51c91@columbus.rr.com>
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: > > > On 11/17/16 14:19, Warren Block wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Baho Utot wrote: >> >>> Ok I have installed 11.0 latest memstick image. >>> >>> I patched/hacked bsdinstall ( /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/zfsboot) to install >>> my zfs raidz2 using 800GB partitions. And it even worked! >>> >>> Now I need to boot this monster as well as my current 10.0 version until I >>> can build my desktop upon the raidz, then I will decommission the 10.0 >>> version when the 11.0 version is up to snuff. >>> >>> I have boot0 install to ada0 which boots win7 and 10.0 freebsd. >>> >>> Can this also boot the raidz? >> >> No, boot0 is MBR-only. The easiest way I see to do this is to install >> gptzfsboot bootcode to the ZFS drives and choose one of them from the BIOS >> boot menu. Grub can multi-boot GPT also, although it needs a small >> partition of its own. > > I think the bsdinstall puts that code onto the zfs drives already or am I > miss informed? > > Would creating the raidz on MBR partitions be an answer? That might actually work. Too much work, and too much a step backwards for me. > Is there a HowTo that shows me how to setup grub if so I have some space left > on the drives so I can give grub what it needs. If you have any reasonably standard machine from the last decade or so, there is a keypress on boot to choose a boot device. This might have been disabled, but then could be re-enabled. For quality home-builder motherboards like Gigabyte, it's F12. For quality prebuilt systems like Dell, it's usually F12. For HP... it could be pretty much anything. F10, F9, Esc. Anything, really, except F12.
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