Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:50:37 +1030 From: Shane Ambler <BSD@ShaneWare.Biz> To: Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a bootable ZFS disk? Message-ID: <549F7705.4020701@ShaneWare.Biz> In-Reply-To: <1548B1FF-36E2-4AE4-ADD4-3B8872A9DF55@tao.org.uk> References: <1548B1FF-36E2-4AE4-ADD4-3B8872A9DF55@tao.org.uk>
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On 28/12/2014 01:07, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > I’m trying to create a new ZFS pool from an existing one (the new > one is 4k aligned and the old one is legacy 512b). > > But, I can’t get it to boot! Not sure what I’m doing wrong. > > I thought I could create the new pool, and use ‘zfs send/recv’ to > copythe existing pool and then boot onto the new disk, but the kernel > doesn’t load… :(. > > Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? > Here’s my recipe: > > # gpart create -s gpt diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK > # gpart add -s 64K -t freebsd-boot diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK > # gpart add -t 8G freebsd-swap diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK > # gpart add -t freebsd-zfs diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK > # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK > > # zfs create copy /dev/diskid/DISK-NEW-DISKp3 > # zfs send -R oldpool@20141226 | zfs receive -duvF copy > # zpool set bootfs=copy/ROOT/default copy > Are you sure diskid/DISK-NEW-DISK is correct? Do you have /dev/diskid/ ? Do you mean /dev/gpt/ ? DISK-NEW-DISK - variable name should have a $ in front? $DISK-NEW-DISK Check partition table with gpart show Is the bios set to boot from this disk? -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Serving Data Shane Ambler
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